A speckled wood butterfly sits ready to defend its territory, resting on a sunlit leaf in a nettle patch in the meadow near the Smestow Valley Reserve Ranger Station.
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Flag iris seeds ripening
The, as yet unripe, seeds of a yellow flag iris, growing by the canalside.
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Unripe holly berries
As they first begin to develop,these holly berries are practically the same colour as the branch they are growing from. They will have turned bright red well in time for Christmas.
Wildmoor sandstone direcly underlies the Bromsgrove conglomerate featured in a post yesterday. Here are two exposures of the rock heading from the Smestow valley towards Tettenhall ridge.
The first is in one of the many former quarries which are cut into this rock along the Smestow valley. The quarry now forms the site of Sandy Hollow, a small cul de sac off Compton Holloway.
The second is again a quarry face: this time the former quarry now forms the grounds of a house on Old Hill, Tettenhall, just downhill from the Mount public house.
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Green insect on a nettle leaf
This tiny green insect was on a nettle leaf by the canal towpath at Newbridge.
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Mallow flower
The almose fluorescent colours of a mallow flower in a hedgerow.