Yarrow with its flowers just beginning to open. This one was growing on the edge of the canal bank.
Seen from below
Very tall umbellifer (not a giant hogweed) so I was able to get a picture looking up to the flower with the sky beyond.
Sycamore seeds beginning to ripen
A bunch of u-shaped wings with a pair of swellings in the middle forming on a sycamore in mid-summer.
Moorhen on a canal
Moorhen swimming on the canal at Castlecroft.
Acrobatic bee collecting honey
Bumblebee with an already well-filled pollen basket scrambles round, even turning upside down, collecting from a St John’s wort flower.
Bryony flowers and tiny moth
A tiny day-flying moth rests on the leaf next to some bryony flowers.
Bryony stem with cuckoo spit
Close-up of a bryony stem, showing a tendril used to clasp onto other plants for support. There is cuckoo-spit where the stem divides.
Bryony flower close-up
Flower of a bryony growing in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.
Fluffy French duckling
Fluffy duckling on the pool of a small park in the southern French coastal resort of Cassis.
Out for a swim
Young moorhen chick swimming out into the middle of the canal at Compton, watched over by one of the parents.
