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Bryony climbing to the top of a hedge on the Saltwells Nature Reserve in Quarry Bank.

From Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Country Park the closest hills are the Clents.

The whale-back ridge of the Wrekin is distinctive.

The dome of the air traffic control radar on Brown Clee was just about visible through the heat haze the day this picture was taken.

Titterstone Clee.

The Long Mynd is … long.

The showy plumage of Britain’s smallest duck species.

Teal on West Park lake, pictured just before it went into eclipse.

Insect, apparently levitating in mid-air. It’s caught on a single strand of spider silk.

Water crowfoot, now flowering in the Birmingham Canal near Wolverhampton city centre.

The recent vandalism which has closed the Wolverhampton section of the canal to traffic while the lock was being repaired seems to have meant less disturbance for the vegetation growing in the water.

Flower from the same thistle as this partially-opened one. The flower is circled by spider silk.