A cool, overcast day with spells of heavy rain. The West Park turtle not coming out to lounge on its usual log. Instead, a coot family with a nest nearby using the log as a preening perch. The chicks were two and a half weeks old at this point.
Gathering of Byturus genus beetles around the centre of a flower of a perrenial sow thistle flower in Old Nursery Wood. The hadful of species in this genus look very similar, They are known as fruitworm beetles, the larvae of some of the species in the genus infesting fruit.
Caterpillar, a scarlet tiger moth, on the top of an alkanet plant. In a garden which was visited by an adult moth last summer.
A few small brown mushrooms growing in a clearing in Old Nursery Wood, species unidentified.
Magpie on the Barley Field, taking flight because I came too near to where it was hunting prey near a path.
Red campion flowering in the wetland area around the Compton Park pond. One of the more successful of the wildflowers which were planted when the pond was created a few years ago.