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Hornbeam keys – the tree’s seeds and the wings which are the means of dispersing them – hanging in a bunch from the tree.

Tortoiseshell buttefly feeding on the flowers of a late-blooming buddleia bush in a front garden. It was there at the same time as several red admiral butterflies, some of which seen in this post.

Bracket fungus growing on an ash tree in Himley Plantation, seen some five weeks after these pictures were taken.

Occasionally one of the migrant hawkers would pause from patrolling their territory to rest on riverside vegetation.

Migrant hawkers, males at least, are more brightly coloured and visibly smaller than brown hawkers. At least three were in the same area as the larger species (yesterday’s post), but in the various challenges for possession, they were the ones sometimes making interspecies aggression.

Fruit on one of the spindle trees by the Railway Walk at Newbridge, now appearing to be almost ripe.