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Getting the worm

Getting the worm

Robin pulling a worm from the soil of one of the lawns near Bantock House …

Getting the worm

then holding the worm captive under its foot as it turns its head to check out any danger.

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Spurge by Bantock House

Spurge by Bantock House

The complex yellow flowers of a spurge or euphorbia, on a shrub growing right outside the window of Bantock House.

Spurge by Bantock House

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Moss forest

Moss forest

Moss growing on the side of a wall overlooking Tettenhall Lower Green. Close-up pictures make the structures holding the spores look like a miniature forest.

Moss forest

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Easter bunny

Hare lying low in a barley field

This Easter bunny isn’t a rabbit but, like the German original, a hare (der Osterhase). It is indeed a German hare, keeping its head down in a field of young barley in the Rhineland during last year’s wet spring.

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Lower Green, spring

Lower Green, spring

Springtime view looking down across Tettenhall’s Lower Green.

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Moorhen on a bird table

Moorhen on a bird table

Adventurous moorhen in search of food – on a bird table sampling the peanuts.

Moorhen on a bird table