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Male blackbird on ground, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Male blackbird on ground, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Male blackbird on ground in the Castle Grounds at Bridgnorth. The feathers look less immaculate than normal – probably doing his share of feeding a hungry brood of chicks.

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Large skipper butterfly on bramble leaf

Large skipper butterfly on bramble leaf

Large skipper butterfly resting in the sunlight on a bramble leaf on the edge of the Wrens Nest Nature Reserve.

Large skipper butterfly on bramble leaf

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Magpie, Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park

Magpie, Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park

Magpie at the top of Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Country Park. As I came up the slope, the bird was at my eye level.

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Yellow cracking boletes on lawn

Yellow cracking bolete on a lawn

Yellow cracking boletes, growing in a patch under trees on a lawn by a main road.

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Gosling collection, Bridgnorth

Gosling collection, Bridgnorth

Goslings – three different sets, at different ages, on the same day last month by the bridge at Bridgnorth. The parents were the almost all white of feral birds, with some small patches of feathers hinting at partial greylag descent.

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Purple, yellow: meadow cranesbill in field of buttercups

Purple, yellow: meadow cranesbill in field of buttercups

Purple patch among the yellow: a meadow cranesbill in field where the buttercup flowers looked to be so many it was as if they had been sown as a crop.

Purple, yellow: meadow cranesbill in field of buttercups