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Greens: oak leaf buds

Greens: oak leaf buds

Oak leaf buds just beginning to open, on the same tree as the flowers in the next post and seen at the same time.

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Peacock butterfly spreading wings in sun

Peacock butterfly spreading wings in sun

Peacock butterfly, first one I’ve seen this spring, resting on a dandelion flower and spreading its wings to warm itself in the morning sunshine.

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Clump of white dead nettles, flowering

Clump of white dead nettles, flowering

A patch of dead nettle was growing and displaying its white flowers in the middle of a large area of true nettle by the side of Compton Park pool recently.

White dead nettle, flowering

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Longhorn calf gambolling

Longhorn calf gambolling

It’s lambs that are supposed to gambol. There were some in the next field, just calmly feeding, on grass and one ewe’s milk. Instead, it was this English longhorn calf which was running around leaping in the air.

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Growing tip, nettle

Growing tip, nettle

Reddish tinge to the stem and leaves at the tip of the plants, new growth on nettles.

Growing tip, nettle

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Longhorn calf eating

Longhorn calf eating

Young English longhorn calf, sharing a field with its mother, sampling the grass on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.