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Mullein plants, their stems reaching up to eye level or higher, studded with flowers. These were growing by the former lock keeper’s cottage at Wightwick lock.

The bright red of a cardinal beetle, resting on the delicate flowers of a hemlock.

One of the West Park floack of lesser black-backed gulls, taking care of its feathers while floating on the lake.

Water mint flowers – these among the vegetation around the pond at Compton Park.

These butterflies are small and white, but it is the prominent greenish veins on their underwings which give them their name.

Burdocks, the flowers having gone over and the seeds beginning to develop, enclosed in their sphere of hooked projections which cling effectively to fur (or clothing) for dispersal.