The photographs bordering this page are (clockwise from top left): Male Fat-thighed Beetle, Oedemera nobilis, on a Creeping Thistle, Cirsium arvense; Fallow Deer, Dama dama; White Bryony, Bryonia dioica; Bitter Oysterling, Panellus stipticus; Pale Flax, Linum bienne; Common Toad, Bufo bufo; a dung beetle, Anoplotrupes stercorosus; Holm Oak, Quercus ilex; Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans; Wild Angelica, Angelica sylvestris; King Alfred's Cakes, Daldinia concentrica; a leaf mine in Bramble, probably Stigmella aurella; a picture-winged fly, Geomyza tripunctata; Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata.   They are all copyright © Bill Welch 2012.