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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.

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Seed cases, winter aconite

Seed cases, winter aconite

Seeds nestling in the seed cases of a winter aconite. The plant, growing in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Stratford on Avon, flowered in January.

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Magpie amid daisies

Magpie amid daisies

One of the West Park magpies, searching for things to eat in short grass with daisies by the boating lake.

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Whitebeam flower bud bunches

Whitebeam flower bud bunch

As yet unopened buds of whitebeam flowers, bunched together on twigs, here of one of the trees in West Park at the end of April.

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Canada goose nest, Stratford on Avon

Canada goose nest with eggs

Looking down from Stratford’s Tramway Bridge to a Canada goose nest on a small island in the Avon. The bird sitting on the four eggs (the female?) left the nest briefly to eat in the river. Its mate stood near the nest, calling until the sitter returned to position. As it sat back on the eggs, it began plucking feathers from its chest to add to those lining the nest.

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Cloud of midges, Wightwick Lock

Cloud of midges, Wightwick Lock

A sunny spring morning recently and midges were out in clouds. They seemed to prefer to congregate above the side weirs of canals, here by Wightwick Lock.