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Cranesbill and meadow cranesbill flowers

Meadow cranesbill flower

The blue flower is a meadow cranesbill, possibly an escapee. The pink is from a species common in local hedgerows well away from gardens.

Pink cranesbill flowers

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Fly on a leaf

Fly

A fly resting and warming itself in the morning sunlight.

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Blue-tailed damselfly

Blue-tailed damselfly

This vividly coloured insect is a common damselfly.

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Flag iris bud and flowers

Flag iris

Flag iris

These were all growing by the river Sow near the centre of Stafford.

Flag iris

Flag iris

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Beech nuts beginning to ripen

Beach nuts beginning to ripen

The trees these were on is growing by the pedestrian footpath next to the Chapel Ash roundabout.

Beach nuts beginning to ripen

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Buttercups in flower

Buttercup

This buttercup has a small fly resting in the flower.

Buttercup

All of these were pictured in the Barrow Hill LNR near Pensnett, Dudley.

Buttercup

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Flag iris with a bee visiting

Flag iris with bee

A bumble bee investigating and eating at flag iris flowers.

Flag iris with bee

Flag iris with bee

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Wild garlic going over

Wild garlic

The flowers are beginning to go. This clump was one of many in the Cotwell End LNR, between Sedgley and the Straits.

The edge of the stream through the reserve is in the background. I guess the black pebbles being washed by the water are diorite.

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Speedwell flowering

Speedwell

Growing by a towpath.

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Purple vetch flowering

Purple vetch

A wild relative of peas and other cultivated legumes.