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Two kinds of wild grasses, the seeds just beginning to ripen.

One of the birds which is most visible in towns and cities. This individual was in Brueton Park, Solihull.

Two of a trio of buzzards, soaring high in the sky.

The blackbird had been bathing in the outlet to the Dock, a side basin by Stourbridge locks.

This sparrow was dust bathing on the towpath of the Stourbridge canal.

Delph Nine Locks on the Dudley No 1 canal, not far from the Merry Hill shopping centre, has unusual overflow weirs which are impressive after wet weather.

There are in fact only eight locks in the flight. Traces of the uppermost of the original nine can be seen beyond the pool by the lock downhill of Mill Street bridge.