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Young male greater spotted woodpecker on what may have been one of its first forays out of the nest. When it spotted me, it took it three attempts before it managed to take off properly to fly a little higher into the tree.

At first glance, meadow browns look similar to the closely related gatekeepers (featured yesterday). But they are much less likely to be spotted only on the margins of wide open spaces. This one was on one of the flowers in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm.

The Prince, a mushroom large enough to be hard to overlook. A patch, with outliers, growing on the lawn of the former Customs and Excise building on Tettenhall Road, where it appeared at a similar time in previous years.

Gatekeeper, also known as hedge brown, a butterfly that does indeed seem to have a strong preference for the edges of open spaces.

Well-grown moorhen chick on the canal at Castlecroft, with patches of white in the feathers of its wings and tail.

Puffball fungi growing lined up and squashed against each other.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as scaly earthballs.