Delicate blue flowers of the water mint which covers some of the surface of the pool in Compton Park.
Bluebells – one white
Peacock on crab-apple flower
Tortoiseshell in a nettle patch
On a warm morning recently, a nettle patch in the corner of Compton Rough was playing host to lots of tortoiseshell butterflies.
I counted ten in the air at one time, but there were probably many more: the insects were spending most of their time resting on nettle leaves, warming themselves in the sun.