This bumble bee seemed to be systematically visiting every flower on a St John’s wort in mid-July.
It was only seven o’clock in the morning, but its pollen baskets already looked full.
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Magpie on a lawn
This magpie was so busy looking for something in the lawn that it was ignoring the busy Tettenhall Road.
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Yarrow flowering
A bunch of delicate white flowers growing at about knee height.
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Fly feeding on St Johns wort
Shiny eyes and carapace, wings which are veined, glittering and transparent, and hairy at the extremes. Just a fly, but what a range of textures.
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Thistle flowering, Barley Field
A thistle in Barley Field, Smestow Valley LNR, with the top flower fully open, and the others just about to open too.
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Web catching the rain
The summer has been so wet that it would be hard to get many pictures without going out on rainy days. At least that makes it easier to find spider’s webs showing up because of the water drops hanging from them. The web was in Barley Field recently.