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Buttercup meadow, Lower Penn

Buttercup meadow, Lower Penn

Field with buttercups so abundant they seemed to be the crop.

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Merry Hill Brook, downstream from Drive Fields

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A very rural-looking view of Merry Hill Brook as it heads out through fields into the Staffordshire countryside.

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Lupins: Fowler’s Park

Lupins: Fowler's Park

Lupins, possibly descended from garden escapes, growing on the canalside edge of Fowler’s Park.

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Flag irises flowering, and an eager bee

Flag iris, Fowler's Park

Bee almost disappearing down the flower of one of the flag irises at Fowler’s Park, eager to get at the nectar.

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Wild garlic going to seed

Wild garlic going to seed

A stem of wild garlic at the stage where most of the petals had dropped off the flowers and the seeds were just beginning to ripen.

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Comma drinking from damp soil

Comma drinking from damp soil

Comma butterfly resting on a dry canal towpath, and drinking from a very slightly damper patch of the soil.

The deeply indented trailing edge of the wings is a more distinctive mark of the species than the vaguely comma shaped patch which is confined to the underwing.