Bladderwrack seaweed witout its covering of water when the tide had receded. On the rocks next to the causeway to St Michael’s Mount it was competing with other seaweeds. On the stones of St Ives harbour it formed what looked from the distance like one continuous carpet.
Poppy growing in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, with several of a tiny species of hoverfly visiting at the same time.
The pink of ragged robin flowers, with their ragged-looking petals.
Large snail which was on the move down the stem of an umbellifer on a rainy day.
Little egret fishing, showing its long plume. In Victorian times, the birds were hunted because these plumes were used to decorate ladies’ hats. In 1889 this provoked the founding of the Plumage League, ancestor of today’s RSPB.
The delicate blue flowers of chicory. Roasted chicory roots are sometimes used as a subistiute for coffee, as a replacement or addition to the real thing.
