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Pair of half-grown moorhen chicks on the canal at Wombourne, incautious to the point of foolhardiness. One, already on the towpath, started walking towards me. The other one actually climbed out to the water to get near.

Some recent pictures of bees visiting flowers. The portrait-format pictures were taken in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm; the others peeping into front gardens in Ludlow.

Views over the River Teme at Dinham. Featuring Ludlow Castle, Dinham Bridge and a lone fisherman.

Unripe iris seeds, on one of the plants growing just outside the main entrance to Bantock House.

Drake with green plumage – some kind of mallard cross. Hangs out with the mallards which congregate near the Horseshoe Weir on the River Teme at Ludlow.

St John’s wort: the cultivated plant (sometimes grown as a garden hedge) is bushier and with larger flowers. These flowers were on one of the wild plants growing on the lower slopes of Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park.