Video of a red admiral butterfly spreading its wings on a sunny wall trying to warm itself, and having a struggle to hold on in the autumn breeze.
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Wrens Nest quarried valley
This deep valley on the Wren’s Nest reserve is entirely the product of human activity. It has been quarried out of the hill.
The picture has been digitally manipulated to erase a discarded crisp packet which I originally failed to notice among the leaf litter.
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Wrens Nest fossil beach
Millions of years ago, a tide went out and left this ripple pattern on a beach. It’s now to be seen, uptilted, on the Wren’s Nest National Nature Reserve in Dudley.
Closer views showing the ripple patterns on more than one level. At least one complete beach level has fallen off in the decades since I made the first of my occasional visits to the reserve.
The view looking at the side of the hill with these fossil beaches. Hopefully, there are still many more to be revealed in turn.
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Another uninvited guest
Actually, almost certainly the same uninvited guest which already featured in a video here.
This female squirrel, which may have only recently had young, scoops up all the food left for the birds again. As she heads off, she leaves behind a small puddle, presumably as a territorial marker.
The ghostly white streaks to the left and right of the reflection of the church tower are swans. They started to move off when they realized I didn’t have any food for them.
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Stratford interlude: fungi
The dryer than usual autumn has been bad for fungi, which normally peak at this time of year. My recent brief visit to Stratford upon Avon and vicinity was at least somewhat more productive than it has been in and around Wolverhampton.
