White water lilies and fringed water lilies (with yellow flowers) both flowering on Old Nursery Pond. Don’t recall ever seeing the fringed water lilies before. From the shore, the flowers look very like those of member of the buttercup family
Soldier beetles, flower beetle
Common red soldier beeteles, and one female flower beetle, feeding on umbellifer flowers
Cuckoo pint berries, Compton Road garden
Cuckoo pint (wild arum – and a slew of other vernacular names) is not a wildflower often found in gardens. I noticed these, with ripening berries, in a front garden on Compton Road
Fly, ragwort flowers
Fly (unknown species) visiting ragwort flowers.
Two mallard ducklings, Old Nursery Pond
Two well grown ducklings and the mother mallard on Old Nursery Pond recently. I hadn’t seen any sign of the birds before on previous occasional visits to the pond.
Amanita Mold Hypomyces hyalinus
A mould almost completely covers the above-ground surface of a mushroom. The mushroom is one of the amanita species, so I’m assuming the mould is the amanita mould (or mold).