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Blue-tailed damselfly

Blue-tailed damselfly

Blue-tailed damselfly resting on the seed-head of a poolside reed.

Blue-tailed damselfly

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White dog roses

White dog roses

Wild roses flowering on a bush growing on the edge of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

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Coot feeding lone chick

Coot feeding a chick

Coot feeding a chick on West Park lake.

Coot chick

This is either the ones shown here, or here.

Coot feeding a chick

Several coot pairs living on the lake seem to have had breeding successes this year, but each just with a single chick.

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Moorhen and lone chick

Moorhen chick

Single moorhen chick together with one parent.

Moorhen and chick

They were swimming and feeding on the canal near Compton.

Moorhen chick

Moorhen

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Orchids, Doulton Clay Pits

Orchid, Saltwells

Close-ups of some of the orchids growing on the floor of the Doulton Claypit in the Saltwells Nature Reserve.

Orchid, Saltwells

Orchid, Saltwells

They are either southern marsh orchids, common spotted orchids, or crosses between these two species.

Orchids, Saltwells

Orchid, Saltwells

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Lone orchid, Doulton Clay Pit

Lone orchid

A single orchid in front of the contrasting yellow flowers of iris and yellow rattle, in a marshy area of the former quarry on the Saltwells Nature Reserve.