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Holly on the ivy

Holly on the ivy

Holly blue butterfly on leaves of an ivy growing on the wall by Castle Walk, Bridgnorth, in the warm morning sunshine yesterday.

I don’t know if it’s because of the places I go, but it seems that I usually see this butterfly around ivy, rather than the tree which gives it its name.

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Stickweed, flowers emerging

Stickweed, flowers emerging

Flowers on stickweed plants, tiny even in close-up pictures.

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Cygnets feeding, gulls getting in on act

Cygnets feeding, gulls getting in on act

xThis year’s brood of West Park cygnets, along with both parent birds, were feeding on grass near to the pool. Several lesser black backed gulls came along to see what the fuss was about.

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Fresh Prince

Fresh Prince

Another crop of fruiting bodies, seen when they were recently emerged, from the Prince fungus growing by Tettenhall Road.

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Greens: unripe red hot poker seeds

Greens: unripe red hot poker seeds

Seeds beginning to develop on some of the red hot poker plants in the border of Bridgnorth Castle grounds.

Greens: unripe red hot poker seeds

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Hunched heron, West Park island

Hunched heron

Heron hunched as it rests on the rail protecting the island in the boating lake at West Park. Probably one of the pair which successfully hatched a chick on the other side of the island.