Fossil shells in a chunk of limestone.
Nearby a modern shell rests on a chunk of limestone, by the shore near the French resort of Cassis.
More Baggeridge orchids
A few of the many orchids growing at the grassy edge of a wooded area in Baggeridge Country Park recently.
Most of the plants had spotted leaves.
Baggeridge orchids
Two of the many orchids flowering recently in Baggeridge Country Park.
Lime flowers
Masses of pollen-rich flowers were growing on roadside lime trees recently.
Piglets getting bigger, Northycote Farm
Gloucester old spot piglets from two different litters, pictured in adjacent pens on Northycote Farm. The one on grass was running up to me, seeming to be expecting food. Its litter is a few weeks older than the other.
The younger one was trying to make a wallow in the powdery-dry soil – both piglets had found enough moisture to give themselves muddy snouts.
Earlier pictures featuring both litters here.
On a reedy nest
Growing ducklings and the mallard mother on the nest on flattened reeds by the canal near Compton.
Gecko on a wall
Gecko out hunting night-insects on a wall in the south of France.
Beautiful demoiselle, flower going over
Green and red colours of a female beautiful demoiselle damselfly resting on the remains of a flower by the river Worfe.
Common tern, Pool Hall
The best picture I managed to get of a graceful common tern as it circled the fishing lake at Pool Hall by the Staffs & Worcs canal.
Orchids, Netherton Hill
Orchids growing in meadows and marshy areas on the slopes of Netherton Hill.
Seen while on a guided walk of the Saltwells Nature Reserve at the end of June, led by the warden of the reserve.
