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An impressive Gloucester old spot boar at Northycote Farm.

Jackdaw on the search for food on the path looking into the poultry pens at Northycote Farm.

Dog’s mercury flowering in the undergrowth in Northycote Farm wood. The green flowers are another inconspicuous sign that spring might actually be arriving.

Spring might finally be arriving.

Here is one of the signs – the lesser celandine flowers are opening fully.

The long cold spell has meant the spring flowers have been long delayed in opening this year. But coltsfoots finally started appearing at the very end of March.

Lichen and moss covered Bromsgrove Sandstone, aka Lower Keuper Sandstone, exposed on Wobaston Road, Pendeford.

This rock, rarely visible on the surface, is resistant to weathering, and underlies some of the higher ground to the west of Wolverhampton, including Tettenhall ridge.