Female orange tip butterfly on a jack by the hedge, one of the preferred food plants of this insect. Only the males have orange tips to thneir wings. The green pattern on the underwings which distinguish the females from other types of whites is just visible in some of these pictures.
I sat down for a short pause on the bench by Wightwick Mill lock, and noticed this moorhen sitting on a nest in flattened reeds directly opposite.
Coot chicks from the same brood as in yesterday’s post, out for an early morning swim. Although they were now big enough to feed for themselves, one was still successfully demanding food from a parent.
Yellow halkbit flowers, these on a plant growing wild beside the pond between the Science Park and the canal.
Coot chicks on the Avon at Stratford. I first took pictures of them when they had only hatched a day or two previously. Now they were several weeks old and swimming much further from the nest.
