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Kinver hill fort

Kinver hill fort

Views of and from the iron age hill fort on Kinver Edge. The bank in the first picture is facing the almost level approach to the fort along the ridge of the Edge. The other pictures look east towards the distant West Midlands conurbation.

Kinver hill fort

Kinver hill fort

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Wild watercress, Berkswell

Wild watercress, Berkswell

A ditch in a marshy field by the footpath heading away from the village via the churchyard is filled with abundant watercress. The last flowers were still blooming a few days ago.

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Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

Young specimens of this bracket fungus are considered a delicacy, in Germany for example. In this first picture, the fungus is beginning to turn orange, having been around for a few days.

Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

The paler yellow here was the shade when I first saw the fungus.

Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

From the slime trails around it, it had already been attracting the attentions of one or more slugs.

Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

I don’t eat wild fungi anyway, but the slugs were welcome to this one. The cherry tree which was its host was growing only a few feet from the ring road.

Chicken of the woods growing on a cherry tree

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Various heathers

Heather flowering, Highgate Common

The heather flowers were beginning to go over last week, but were still making a show on Highgate Common.

Bee feeding on heather flower, Highgate Common

A lone bumble bee was prospecting for nectar.

Heather flowering, Highgate Common

Heather flowering, Highgate Common

The paler flowers below were in a small clump of heather on Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Park.

Heather flowering, Toposcope hill, Baggeridge Park