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The nearest leaf on this lily, growing in a front garden, was drooping, giving a clear view of the inside of the flower.

Flowers on a patch of marsh marigolds growing by the Penk at Perton. Also known as king cups, a member of the buttercup family which grows in damp areas.

It seems to be shaping up as a good breeding year for coots and moorhens. This coots’ nest in a tangle of twigs held at least two hard to spot chicks. There must have been a different nest, and another pair of coots also having young chicks very close by, on the so-called Bird Island on the Avon between the Tramway and Clopton Bridges at Stratford at the end of last month.

Spring flowers in Stratford on Avon were well in advance of those in Wolverhampton, possibly due to the milder climate of the Avon valley. Being the sort of town it is, there were lots of impressive wisterias on display.

Those featured here, in full flower at the end of last month, were on the front of the riverside Pen and Parchment pub, on the side of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s New Place, and round the back of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre.

Female blackbird near a molehill, repeatedly probing the disturbed soil for things to eat, and ignoring people and dogs passing on a footpath close by.

Pair from the small herd of English longhorn cattle, another of the rare breeds at Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. The cow was standing by as the bull spent some time at a salt lick.