Small white butterfly, very enthusiastically feeding on alkanet flowers.
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Buds, opening, open: ragwort
It’s ow about the height of the ragwort flowering season. Here flower buds still closed, buds opening, and flowers fully open.
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Canada goslings, West park, growing up
Canada goose goslings on West Park lake growing uop fast. From a distance they now look like adults at first glance. Closer inspection shows they are still smaller, with traces still of down in their plumage.
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Self heal, West Park
Self-heal, clinging to the ground as it flowers, a wildflower insinuating itself among the managed planting in West Park.
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Plant bug – Plagiognathus arbustorum
Plagiognathus arbustorum, a plant bug, strolling actoss the leaves of a hazel bush
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Scarlet tiger moth feeding on alkanet
Scarlet tiget moth, its wings folded so the scarlet colour was hidden as it was busy feeding on alkanet flowers.