Beautiful demoiselle damselfly which seemed to prefer perching on hawthorn leaves when it took pauses from patrolling its territory over a stretch of the canal at Wightwick.
Scarletina boletes
Scarletina boletes are a fairly common mushroom which, like all boletes, has pores rather than gills on the undersides of the caps.
When they are cut, their flesh very quickly turns dark blue.
CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as lurid boletes
Premature autumn, cherry leaves
White: meadowsweet
Cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort
Cinnabar moth caterpillars are strongly coloured to warn would-be predators of the toxins they absorb from their food plant, ragwort.
The adults are also brightly coloured, and fly by day.
Lime flowers
Whirlygig beetles
Young goldfinch (possibly)
Young bird, probably a goldfinch, high in a hawthorn bush by the canal where it is crossed by Castlecroft Bridge.
That particular bush seems popular as a vantage point for birds. Earlier on the same day as this picture was taken, there had been a whitethroat. A couple of days previously, a yellowhammer in the same spot.