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Coot’s nest in a patch of bulrushes on the anglers’ pool at Perton. There is one adult, and at least one chick (red beak and orange feathers on the back of its head).

Orange tip butterflies are usually wary of anyone getting too close to them. I recently noticed a couple of males and a couple of females on a patch of flowers by the canal in Compton Rough. This male, like one of the females, was so intent on feeding on the nectar and occasionally spreading its pheronomes that I could get clear enough for a series of photos.

Lady’s smock – also sometimes called the cuckoo flower because it supposedly blooms at the same time the cuckoo arrives from migration. These days finding the flower is much more likely than hearing the bird calling.

Pasqueflowers are so called because they supposedly flower at Easter. I noticed these in a front garden over the Mayday Bank Holiday weekend. They were definitely beginning to fade, but I liked their colours and textures.

Goats, including a nanny with young kid in a pen within the pen, stretching out in morning sunshine on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. Possibly Arapawa goats.

Yellow archangel, yellow flowers on a plant which looks rather like a nettle. These were growing by a path in a patch of woodland by the Penk, between the two pools at Perton.