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Yellowhammer on the highest twig of the hawthorn bush by the canal next to Castlecroft Bridge.

It (probably he) was sending a message to a rival yellowhammer which was also singing nearby.

Tiny caterpillar hurrying along on the upper surface of a nettle leaf.

Self-heal, further along than in the previous post. The seeds are now beginning to develop from the fertilized flowers.

Self-heal, common summer meadow flowers, often easily overlooked because they are dwarfed by the surrounding grasses.

Beetle with forking antennae climbing down the leaf of a reed on the edge of the river Worfe.

Moorhen adult and a chick grown to the same size, still in juvenile plumage, both on the nest by the canal at Castlecroft.