Pair of orange tip butterflies mating while on a jack by the hedge, the preferred food plant of the species. A wider view (final picture) shows the plant had also attracted other orange tips.
Orange tip butterflies, preparing to mate
Male orange tip butterfly fluttering as it heads towards a female perched on a grass stalk. The female (which doesn’t have the orange patch that gives the species its name) is waving her abdomen in the air to spread the pherenomes which have attracted the male. These pictures taken a week later than the sequence in the previous post.
Horse chestnut flowers, opening
Horse chestnut flowers at every stage of opening from buds to full flower.
Mallard family ashore again, West Park
West Park mallard family with drake alongside, resting again in the sun on the shore of the lake.
Whitethroat on a telegraph pole
Whitethroats: more often heard than seen. For a change, this one was in the open, on the top of a telegraph pole by Wightwick Lock.
Bumblebee visiting bugloss flowers
Bumblebee which seemed to be systematically visiting every flower in a patch of bugloss.