Green shield bug, just resting on a leaf. The ones I notice usually are.
Cow parsley flowers
May is the month for the delicate flowers of cow parsley.
Scarlet tiger moth outside
The scarlet tiger moth caterpillar which had made an indoor visit (yesterday’s post) now returned to the more appropriate surroundings of a garden well stocked with plenty of vegetation.
Doing its best to eat the alkanet leaf it was resting on.
Best of may
May (hawthorn) flowers in the hedge separating the Barley Field from the Railway Walk, earlier this month.
Two kinds of goslings, West Park
A pair of Canada geese with goslings, and, a little further along the shore of the lake at West Park, a pair of greylag geese with goslings which were a little older.
Seed time, dandelions
Dandelions spreading over one of the areas of short grass in Compton Park, the seed-heads all ripening at the same time.