Seen on the same walk along the canal. One heron taking off and heading for the Smestow after a dog got too close. Further along, at Castlecroft, another heron lands on the towpath, then takes up position watching the water for prey.
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Growing lambs, Northycote
Two of this year’s lambs at Northycote Farm, already growing.
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Speckled wood butterfly on grass leaf
Speckled wood resting on a grass leaf. This butterfly is quite often found in shady gardens, a substitute for their preferred territory of a clear patch in woodland.
A female goosander fishing and preening on the Severn just downstream of the Bylet at Bridgnorth. Two other females, fishing together just a little later, upstream of the bridge.
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Hawthorn flowering season
Close-ups of buds and flowers; a flower-laden branch trailing into the canal at Compton, and the lower edge of the Barley Field when the hawthorn was out a month ago.
Banded demoiselle damselfly females, their green bodies making them harder to spot against waterside vegetation than the males (yesterday’s post).