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A view downstream along the River Avon from the Tramway Bridge at Stratford. Some of the swans and gulls attracted by the rich pickings from the tourists can be seen on the water.

Liverwort with broad leaves which were supposed to resemble a liver, and thus to have curative properties for liver problems, growing on a rock beside a lower-lying moss.

Both are evolutionarily primitive non-flowering plants.

After this winter’s persistent rains, the pool in the middle of Coppice Wood is spreading out so that it is almost reaching the footpath running around the edge of the wood.

Magpie calling out from high in one of the lime trees in West Park.

This is a different individual that the bird in yesterday’s picture, but part of the same group.

Pure white bracket fungus growing out of the end of the trunk of a felled tree. A healthy growth of algae has turned most of the surface bright green.

Magpie walking around in West Park, on ground strewn with twigs brought down by the persistent heavy winds.