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Peacock butterfly on blackthorn flower

Peacock butterfly on blackthorn flower

This year’s crop of blackthorn flowers attracted a lot of feeding insects – here a peacock butterfly.

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Bluebells, 2014

This has been been a good year for bluebells. Here’s a selection of pictures from various wooded areas in and around Wolverhampton in the last few weeks.

Beautiful bluebells

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Duck and ducklings, Newbridge

Duck and ducklings, Newbridge

Some nice fluffy ducklings for May Day. These were on the canal at Newbridge with their mother in mid-April.

There were five ducklings altogether. They had already grown up enough to be confident on the water. The group was well spread out, so I’m not sure whether all of them appear here.

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Cowslips by the Birmingham Canal

Cowslips by the Birmingham Canal

The 21 locks section of the Birmingham Canal, between Broad Street Basin and Aldersley Junction, has cowslips flowering by several of the locks.

Cowslips by the Birmingham Canal

There are very few, if any, by the stretches of canal between the locks, so they are likely to have been planted.

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Auriculas, Bantock House

Auriculas, Bantock House

Gold lace auriculas have formed the centrepiece of the Dutch Garden at Bantock House recently, planted in the middle bed of the garden.

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Shining cranesbill flowering

Shining cranesbill flowering

Shining cranesbill prefers limy soil, not often found in Wolverhampton other than in gardens. But it can be found, growing apparently wild, by a stretch of the canal towpath opposite the Wildside Activity Centre.

Shining cranesbill flowering