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Young blackbird searching for, and finding, invertebrates in a patch of short grass.

Red admirals have been the butterfly this autumn. Here are some more, warming themselves in the sun while resting on hawthorn leaves, on a footpath and on a branch high in a willow tree.

Log pile at the end of the garden of a canalside house in Castlecroft, reflected with gentle distortion in the water.

Flowers, and a flower bud, from one of the ever-changing front gardens in East Castle Street, Bridgnorth.

Common earthballs are, as the name claims, quite common. Found in woodland, in summer and autumn, usually in association with trees like oak, birch or beech. This one was in Himley Plantation recently.

Abundant this autumn, red admiral butterflies. At least five or six were attracted to feeding on the flowers of the same patch of ivy as the hornet hoverfly featured yesterday.