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Danish scurvy grass revisited

Danish scurvy grass

From a return visit to the patch of Danish scurvy grass on Seisdon village green. The picture below shows just how narrow a strip this grows on by the side of roads.

Danish scurvy grass

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Violets on a bank

Violet

These violets grow on the same small stretch of sunny bank as the lesser celandines which were pictured yesterday. Every spring the two sets of plants flower at about the same time.

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Web along a twig

Web along a twig

This web closely followed the lines of the twigs it was spun on. It showed up by the water which was condensing on it from the cold mist.

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Lesser celandines coming out

Lesser celendine

Lesser celandines flowering at a sheltered spot by the Staffs & Worcs canal. Both pictures were taken on cool, cloudy days, the bottom shot a couple of days before the other one.

Lesser celendine

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Lock gate workshop Open Day

Open Day

Not actually wildlife, but the work which goes on to maintain the places we use where wildlife also thrives, here the canals.

Open Day

All the lock gates on the British Waterways system are built at a workshop at the end of the Bradley arm of the Birmingham canal, which now leads only to that workshop, though it was on the original, Brindley, main line.

Open Day

The workshop had an open day recently. These pictures were taken then.

Open Day

Open Day

Open Day

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Birch tree in a mist

Birch tree in the mist

The early morning mist was very dense: the tree was perhaps twenty yards away, with the canal directly behind it.