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Swan and young cygnets, West Park

Swan and young cygnets, West Park

Cygnets with an adult swan (the other parent was just out of shot) on the lake at West Park. The cygnets looked like they were only a couple of days old when these pictures were taken.

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Ice house in sandstone cliff, Himley Hall

Ice house in sandstone cliff, Himley Hall

The ice house at Himley Hall, the entrance now booked up, at the base of a sandstone cliff in the grounds of the hall.

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Blue alkanet, bees

Blue alkanet, bees

Some of the bees visiting the flowers on a patch of blue alkanet in a garden, one one of the rare sunny mornings recently.

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Pale wisteria, Cartway

Pale wisteria, Cartway

Pale wisteria, not white as I thought when I saw it from a distance. Growing all over the from of a house halfway up the Cartway in Bridgnorth.

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Almost in Wolves colours: sedge flowering

Almost in Wolves colours: sedge flowering

Sedges flowering by the side of the canal. The flowers almost, but not quite, a colour match for the black and gold of the Wolves strip.

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Garden spiderlet

Garden spiderlet

Come the autumn, this will (if it’s a female) have grown into one of the lardger and commoner of the spiders seen around in gardens and outhouses, a cross spider or garden spider. In its juvenile springtime version, it was only a couple of millimeters across.