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River Severn at Severn Valley Country Park footbridge

River Severn

View looking upstream from the footbridge in the country park, between Alveley and Highley.

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Coot chicks

Coot  chicks

The red on the head of these coot chicks makes them look more like very young moorhens.

Coot  chicks

These pictures were taken just a few minutes walk from the city centre.

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Teazles in flower

Teazle flower with visiting bee

These teazles, in the Severn Valley Country Park, had a visiting bumble bee.

Teazle flower with visiting bee

Teazle flower with visiting bee

Teazles

This plant was next to the one with the bee. Its flowers had almost completely gone over.

Teazle flower

Teazle flower

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Red berries, green leaves

Red berries

A composition in complementary colours.

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Pinkish umbellifer flower

Pinkish umbellifer flower

Quite a few umbellifers this year seem to be having flowers which are pickish or purplish rather than white.

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Red clover flowering

Red clover flowering

A common meadow flower.

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Nettle with abundant flowers

Nettle with abundant flowers

The flowers of this nettle were so abundant they seem to have hidden the rest of the plant.

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Red rattle flowering

Red rattle flowering

Red rattle is a semi-parasitic plant. These were on the Saltwells LNR in Brierley Hill.

Red rattle flowering

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Flower with tiny beetles

Flower with tiny beetles

The small black dots on this flower are all tiny beetles.

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Pregnant Green dock beetle

Pregnant Green dock beetle

Found late spring/early summer on dock leaves, which the young eat.

Pregnant Green dock beetle

Their bright green colour is unmistakable.

Pregnant Green dock beetle

This female is pregnant. Her body has swollen up so that the wings only cover the front section.

Pregnant Green dock beetle

Pregnant Green dock beetle