A random selection of unripe berries, fruits and nuts I’ve come across on my exercise walks in the last few weeks.
Fuel stop, small white butterfly
Small white butterfly, very enthusiastically feeding on alkanet flowers.
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.
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.
Self heal, West Park
Self-heal, clinging to the ground as it flowers, a wildflower insinuating itself among the managed planting in West Park.
Plant bug – Plagiognathus arbustorum
Plagiognathus arbustorum, a plant bug, strolling actoss the leaves of a hazel bush