Wednesday
Jan072015
Blowfly

A female Protocalliphora azurea (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-01.
A female Protocalliphora azurea (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-06-01.
Berries of a spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus.
The tree itself was quite small:
Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2014-10-19.
From late last summer: flowers of sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica.
The leaves are narrow and serrated:
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-23.
Broadleaf or greater plantain, Plantago major.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-23.
The leaves and an acorn of a turkey oak, Quercus cerris.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2014-08-23.