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#lockdown – broad bodied chaser, Willow Pond

#lockdown - broad bodied chaser, Willow Pond

Willow Pond, in Turners Fields in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, one of two male broad bodied chasers resting on the pondside vegetation. The other was too far away to get a picture.

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#lockdown – azure damselfly, Old Nursery Pond

#lockdown - azure damselfly, Old Nursery Pond

Azure damselfly at Old Nursery Pond in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve earlier this week. Resting on buttercups, so they yellow of the flowers formed a colour contrast to the blue of its body.

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Carrion crow, looking out, having a drink

Carrion crow, looking out, having a drink

Carrion crow, West Park, first seen watchful in a tree near the lake.

A few minutes later, it flew down to the edge of the lake, climbed down the bank, and kept arefully lowering its head to take several beakfulls of water.

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Cygnets brought to shore to feed

Cygnets brought to shore to feed

The West Park swan cygnets brought to the shore of the lake to eat

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First poppy other flowers and more

First roadside poppy

The first roadside poppy I’ve seen this year, with other flowers, and some seeds and nuts beginning to develop.

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#lockdown – robin, dust bathing, Perton

#lockdown - robin, dust bathing, Perton

Robin, possibly a young bird, on open soil beside a footpath at Perton, dustbathing.