Female large red damselfly on a leaf on the Compton Park pool, moving to the far side of the leaf, perhaps to avoid my attention. As in many species, the female is less conspicuous than the males.
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Swans and cygnets preening while afloat
West Park’s parent swans and their cygnets, contorting their necks to preen while afloat in the middle of the boating lake.
Ornate white poppies, some flowers already open and others just breaking buds, in one of the front gardens of East Castle Street, Bridgnorth.
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Buzzard almost overhead, Compton Park
Another morning, and a buzzard using a thermal to rise in the sky over Compton Park as soon as it had got warm enough, the bird soaring almost over my head.
Heron wading through the water at the edge of the canal, hunting for prey in a patch overshadowed by the trees of Crowther Road wood.
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White: rowan flowers
Flowers from some of the rowans on the edge of Compton Rough and the Barley Field, as they came out early last month.