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Coot chicks

Coot  chicks

The red on the head of these coot chicks makes them look more like very young moorhens.

Coot  chicks

These pictures were taken just a few minutes walk from the city centre.

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Teazles in flower

Teazle flower with visiting bee

These teazles, in the Severn Valley Country Park, had a visiting bumble bee.

Teazle flower with visiting bee

Teazle flower with visiting bee

Teazles

This plant was next to the one with the bee. Its flowers had almost completely gone over.

Teazle flower

Teazle flower

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Red berries, green leaves

Red berries

A composition in complementary colours.

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Pinkish umbellifer flower

Pinkish umbellifer flower

Quite a few umbellifers this year seem to be having flowers which are pickish or purplish rather than white.

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Red clover flowering

Red clover flowering

A common meadow flower.

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Nettle with abundant flowers

Nettle with abundant flowers

The flowers of this nettle were so abundant they seem to have hidden the rest of the plant.