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Cluster of scarlet elf cups, Northycote Farm

Cluster of scarlet elf cups, Northycote Farm

Tightly-pressed cluster of scarlet elf cup fungi growing under the hedge by the farm track at Northycote Farm. This year, I have been noticing these fungi for the first time in lots of places I regularly visit.

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Taking a rest: shovellers, West Park

Taking a rest: shovellers, West Park

Shoveller pair on West Park boating lake, taking a brief pause from swimming round in tight circles, “shovelling” the water in fronot of them for food.

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First violets, canalside, Penkridge

First violets, canalside, Penkridge

Seen with a week still left of February, my first violet flowers of the year. By the canal footpath at Penkridge, growing among chickweed.

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Little grebe, Perton pool

Little grebe, Perton pool

Just seen, out of focus behind a screen of reeds, a little grebe on the big pool at Perton. I was told it had been trying to eat a fish which was too big to swalow.

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Cherry blossom, Bridgnorth

Cherry blossom, Bridgnorth

Pink cherry flowers on a riverside tree at Bridgnorth. Out of focus as the background, the Severn in flood.

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Robin on hawthorn, Perton

Robin on hawthorn, Perton

Hawthorn bush with the leaves just beginning to emerge from the buds, Perton. On the end of one of the twigs, a robin.