Blue butterflies aren’t always easy to distinguish. Several species are on the small size, tend to be wary while in the air, and to rest with their wings closed showing the nondescript underwings while at rest.
If one keeps on landing on a holly bush, that’s a sign it might be a holly blue. If it occastionally opens its wings enough to show the black edge to the upper wing, that gives confirmation.
Waterlily leaves on the small pond in Bantock Park recently.
Male common blue damselfly (the females are paler and harder to spot) resting on a leaf near the edge of the vegetation fringing the pool in Compton Park. The first one to arrive this year.
Female goosander seen flying upstream in the previous post, now landed in the middle of the Severn and being carried by the current floating back in the direction she originally came from. In the final shot, she disappears leaving only a circular wave, having dived for fish.
Female goosander flying quickly heading upstream above the Severn at Bridgnorth, possilby one of the three which had been on the riverbank a few minutes earlier.
Flowers just beginning to open on one of the whitebeam trees in West Park – indeed the same tree which had the still tightly closed flower buds in this post.