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The last honeysuckle flower on the bush, and one bunch of the already ripening berries – this bush flourishing by the Tettenhall Station access to the Smestow Valley Railway Walk at Newbridge.
The WI garden in the Castle Grounds at Bridgnorth features an area with food plants which have decorative flowers. Here, one of the courgettes.
Hornet hoverfly resting on a footpath. An innocuous hoverfly which warns of predators as it mimics a far from innocuous hornet.
Ragged butterfly resting on a thistle seed head. Probably a female common blue – identification solely on the grounds that the only other individual in its vicinity was a male common blue.
Lone wild arum in the middle of a nettle patch., its berries turning red, ripening.
English Longhorn calf resting in the summer heat in esrly August, one of the traditional breeds livestonck on mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.
