Clump of coltsfoot flowering on the bank of the Stratford Canal on the outskirts of the town.
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I seem to be noticing tree creepers more often than usual recently. This one was hunting its insect prey as it moved up a tree trunk in the RSC Gardens, just yards from the ferry in Stratford on Avon.
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Dexters, Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote
Dexter cattle in a shed on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. I somehow doubt that any of the livestock on an actual Elizabethan or Jacobean farm were quite this clean and well-groomed looking.
A flock of gulls, probably black-headed though it’s hard to be sure at their distance, following a plough as it disturbs the soil. Seen on the opposite side of the valley from RSPB Bowling Green.
Hairy pigs: a mangalitza sow and and her two piglets resting in their sty at Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.
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Greenfinch / seed feeder
A greenfinch busy taking seed from one of the feeders on an RSPB reserve.