A pair of swans building a nest in the reeds on the margin of Angler’s Pool, Perton.
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Mare’s tails, not yet open
Mare’s tails, for many gardeners a least favourite plant. These were not yet open to resemble a miniature forest of Christmas trees three inches high.
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First ducklings, 2019
The first ducklings I’ve spotted in 2019: five of them along with both parent birds. The young ones looked like they had hatched the previous day.
On the canal at Compton. As soon as they noticed me, the adults swam directly towards me, leading the ducklings.
Greater stitchwort flowers among tangles of stickweed, growing by the canal towpath at Castlecroft.
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Careful look around: swan, Doxey
Swan on marshy ground by the River Sow on Doxey Marshes Nature Reserve, having a careful look around.
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Lady’s smock flowers, Doxey
Lady’s smock flowers on Doxey Marshes. The plant is one of the preferred foods of orange tip butterflies. There was one nearby when I took these pictures. It was fluttering just in front of me for some time but headed off, flying fast, as soon as I reached for my camera.