A couple of days staying in Stratford on Avon last month, so I came back with lots of pictures, many of them showing the livestock and wildlife of Mary Arden’s farm in Wilmcote.
Here is the showy turkey cock, and the somewhat less flashy female.
Vivid flower of a galladia, growing in one of the showpiece front gardens of East Castle Street in Bridgnorth last month.
Attractive lobelia flowering in a front garden on the Compton Road.
Mallard cross drake on the West Park lake, with white feathers forming a prominent ring round the neck.
Green-veined white butterfly on purple loosestrife flowers. The sunlight shining through its wings throwing the veining of the underwing in strong emphasis.
Vibernum (guelder rose) berries on the bushes by the canal in Compton Rough, half ripe as they turn from yellow to red.