Seeds on an elm tree growing by the canal at Newbridge. There are several elms growing by this section of the canal towards Alderley Junction, but they are now reaching a height that infection with Dutch Elm disease is now becoming likely unless they are one of the immune varieties.
One of the pair of carrion crows with territory around Dunstall Water Bridge – pictures taking while I was standing on the bridge.
First the bird spent some time surveying the area while it was perched on a nearby tree branch, on the same level as me. Then it flew down, landed and started to walk across the towpath.
Some sort of umbellifer with delicately pink flowers, with a bumblebee busily gathering pollen.
The plant has flowered, petals have gone. Now the seeds on the stems of this marsh marigold are beginning to develop.
The coots with chicks I have noticed locally this year seem to have small broods: one or at most two. Here is one of the several lone chicks on the lake at West Park, well grown enough to be able to feed itself, but still insistently demanding food from a parent.
Common blue butterfly which kept on landing on cranesbills growing by the canal towpath near the water bridge recently.