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Mary Arden’s Farm, at Wilmcote outside Stratford on Avon, has a collection of traditional breeds of livestock. These English longhorn cattle were stretching out in the sun on a warm autumn morning recently.

Male banded demoiselle damselfly resting on vegetation, overlooking the stretch of canal which forms its territory.

Comma butterfly on a bramble, eating the blackberries. Yards away there was another one on a nettle, sunning itself.

Clump of common inkcap mushrooms which were growing next to a patch of nettles at Newbridge.

Skipper butterfly which was feeding on lavender flowers at the end of July. A reminder of the summer which already seems so long ago.

Young moorhen swimming on the Smestow Brook just before the water bridge, intently staking things to eat and dipping its head in the water to strike.