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Green woodpecker clinging to a telegraph pole, occasionally retreating to the opposite side, then moving back to check whether I had gone away.

Horse mushrooms growing in shady spots at the edge of wooded areas. These large fungi usually appear in more open ground.

Emerald damselfly (Lestes sponsa), resting on a reed stem by a small pond in Baggeridge Country Park. Often, though not here, rests with its wings spread at 45 degrees to its body. Status is “locally common”, but this was my first ever sighting of one

Half-grown goslings on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. Providing the scenic background, a dung heap.

Medlar flowers, seen when they were past their peak, on trees in the garden of Shakespeare’s bithplace and elsewhere in Stratford on Avon.

Elegant beetle, with metallic green and yellow wings and thorax, resting and eating on a flower.