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Blackthorn flower frosting

Blackthorn flower frosting

Blackthorn bushes flower before their leaves appear. When the flowers are at their peak, a blackthorn hedge looks like someone has been applying a frosting of icing sugar with a heavy hand.

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Chewing the cud

Chewing the cud

Two of the herd of cows in a field crossed by a footpath, chewing contentedly as they lay in the spring sunshine.

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Cowslip, Hampton station

Cowslip, Hampton station

Cowslips and other wild flowers were growing on the bank of the cutting at Hampton in Arden station.

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Duck and ducklings, Shropshire Union Canal

Duck and ducklings, Shropshire Union Canal

It’s the time of year for duck and duckling pictures again. This mallard had seven ducklings, only a couple of days old, on the Shropshire Union Canal between Wheaton Aston and Brewood.

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Wallflowers flowering, Bridgnorth Castle wall

Wallflowers flowering, Bridgnorth Castle wall

Some of the wallflowers growing from the ruined walls of Bridgnorth Castle, now in full flower.

One of the plants was pictured here a few weeks earlier, before the flowers started to develop.

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Rooks guarding their nests, Wyken

Rooks guarding their nests, Wyken

Some of the rooks in the rookery by the bus stop at Wyken, loudly standing guard, each by their nest.

Rook guarding its nest, Wyken