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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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