Frequent showers.
A new leaf gall on Alder. It's made by the mite Eriophyes laevis.
Holly flowers have set and the berries are beginning to appear.
Many of the town walls are covered in large patches of Ivy-leaved Toad Flax.
Many of the local Meadow Buttercups grow along the sides of paths and ditches, but this patch is in an arable field.
Catkins of the Osier - Salix viminalis - are much later than other Willow species.
A Sedge from wasteland in the cente of town.
Both of the smaller Sow-thistles are flowering now. This is the Smooth Sow Thistle - Sonchus asper.
Syritta pipiens is a tiny (8mm) hoverfly. The inflated thighs appear to be a form of bee mimicry for a bee that no longer exists.
