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Colour contrast: ceanothus and clematis flowering

Colour contrast: ceanothus and clematis flowering

Pale pink and dark blue flowers, not one of the conventional colour pairings, and works all the better for that. Flowers on a ceanothus bush with a clematis climbing over it, in a front garden I pass on the way to the shops.

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Black and blue, beetle

Black and blue, beetle

Unidentified beetle or similar insect on a wall, its black colour overlaid with a shifting iridescent blue.

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Duck with two ducklings, West Park

Two ducklings, West Park

The first I’v seen of this year’s crop of young birds on the West Park lake – a mallard with her two ducklings. The young birds looked so small and fluffy I thought they were less than a day old. But they looked no different twenty-four hours later (pictures soon).

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Blackbird on a look-out branch

Blackbird on a look-out branch

Male blackbird, alert, on the lookout from the branch of a bush by the side of the Severn at Bridgnorth.

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Resting on the line: mallard drakes

Resting on the line: mallard drakes

Two mallard drakes, part of the West Park duck population, asleep or resting balancing on the line of rope separating the boating area from the rest of the lake. It seems a very strange place to choose, but it gets well used.

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Carrion crow, head to one side

Carrion crow, head to one side

I’m not sure why this carrion crow had its head to one side at the moment I took the picture. It must have been a brief movement as the bird walked to the edge of West Park lake for a drink of water.