Bee visiting a mass of meadowsweet flowers, gathering pollen.
Sweetpea pods
Sweetpea pods, ripening on the same plant which had been flowering a fortnight earlier.
Blue butterfly on damp ground
Blue butterfly, probably a holly blue, resting on ground made damp by watering.
Canalside cobweb
Cobweb on plants overhanging a canal, its silk catching the light to give subtle rainbow colours.
Cygnet, Dimmingsdale
Lone cygnet by the canal at Dimmingsdale, seen from the towpath on the other side of the water, and from looking down from the bridge. There was one parent bird nearby.
Spreading its wings, male banded demoiselle
Male banded demoiselle damselfly resting on vegetation by the canal near the Wildside Centre. It kept spreading its wings wide.