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#lockdown – foal, Wombourne

Foal

Young foal with its mother in field on the outskirts of Wombourne.

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#lockdown – cows and calves, Wombourne

#lockdown - cows and calves, Wombourne

Cows with young calves in a field outside Wombourne. Despite having young calves to care for, some of the cows were playful in the heat.

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#lockdown – green veined white butterfly, Old nursery woods

#lockdown - green veined white butterfly, Old nursery woods

Green veined white butterfly resting on vegetation in the woodland near the old nursery, Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

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Mischief of magpies

Mischief of magpies

Not actually a mischief of magpies – that’s one of the supposed terms for them gathered asw a group. Instead, different birds hunting as individuals, happened across on my lockdown exercise.

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Oak apple wasp galls – still soft

Oak apple wasp gall - still soft

Oak apples on a tree in Bantock Park. So recent the surface was still slightly soft, and had not yet begun to darken.

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#lockdown – barnacle geese

#lockdown - barnacle geese

A pair of barnacle geese which paid a short visit to the lake at West Park last month – landed one afternoon, had disappeared by the following morning.