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Clump of aubretia flowering growing on a wall on Castle Walk in Bridgnorth in mid-April, the tiny flowers so numerous and close together it looked like a purple patch from a distance.

Common blue damselflies mating, resting on a leaf, then flying together. This pair were at the new pond in Compton Park last August. Although the pool has only been there a couple of years, it has already attracted several types of damselflies. Common blue damselflies have indeed been the commonest.

I’ve not been out much recently because of health problems. Instead I have been looking back at some of the pictures I never got round to posting at the time they were taken.

Earth stars are a group of fungi which show up in winter, usually peeping through the vegetation under hedgerows.

The flotsam accumulating on the upstream side of Low Town Bridge, Bridgnorth, attracted an widening set of bird species. Here a carrion crow was searching for something to eat. I’m not sure what it found.

Some of the flowers in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds, seen in the middle of April.

Goosander drake, almost certainly the same bird seen in the previous post. These pictures, taken half an hour later that the others, show the bird as it was swimming quickly downstream on the Severn, frequently diving for fish as it went.