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Young swallow, one of a small group perched on telegraph wires outside Lower Penn, socialising together.

Mouth open to vocalise …

and grooming.

Male damsel fly resting in grass by the river Worfe at Worfield.

Yellow waterlilies just beginning to flower. These were growing on the fishing lake at Pool Hall.

Heron stretching and crouching as it looks for prey in Spring Pool in Baggeridge Country Park.

It’s a regular hunting spot.

Alchemilla mollis’s broad leaves are often covered in droplets of water after rain.

This was one of the plants in the varied vegetation on the floor of the Doulton Claypit on the Saltwells Nature Reserve.

Wall of the Doulton Claypit at Saltwells Nature Reserve, an SSSI because it is an exposure of the Black Country Coal Measures.