There was plenty of nice weather when the bramble flowers were out this year, so they were visited by lots of bumble bees and other insects. A good crop of blackberries should be coming, weather permitting.
Ripening raspberries, seen as they were early lst month, just beginning to turn from green to red.
One of the second, summertime, generation of comma butterflies, feeding on the flowers of a thistle in the Paddock in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
Wild carrot at various stages of flowering on different stems of the plant. Growing at the edge of the wetland area created round the Compton Park pond, and probably not one of the wildflowers which were sown when the area was created.
A patchwork leafcutter bee (Megachile centuncularis) on a thistle flower, sampling the pollen, and getting some of it scattered over its back.
Flowering seasonfor the bulrushes which re increasingly the dominant vegetation of the Compton Park pond.