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Red, green: maple seeds beginning to ripen

Red, green: maple seeds

Reddish “wings” on the sycamore-like seeds of a maple. As the seeds ripen, the dessicating wings will turn a pale brown.

Red, green: maple seeds

Red, green: maple seeds

Red, green: maple seeds

Red on the wings of unripe maple seeds, contrasting with the green elsewhere.

Red, green: maple seeds

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Coots on nests: Sutton and Sandwell

Spreading its wings

Coot chicks on their nest on Sutton Park’s Keepers Pool, one stretching its wings. The adult bird, presumably brooding eggs, was on a nest in front of the hide at Sandwell Country Park.

Coot on nest

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Rabbits in short grass

Rabbits in short grass, Northycote

Rabbits on short grass in the middle of one of the fields at Northycote Farm, basking in the morning sun while keeping a wary eye out for danger.

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Heartsease flowering

Heartsease flowering

Heartsease, the wild ancestor of pansies. These were growing on a patch of rough ground in Compton Park, but in such close association with a large number of other species of “wildflower” that the seeds may have come from a packet.

Heartsease flowering

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Broad bodied chaser flying, Baggeridge

Broad bodied chaser flying, Baggeridge

Male dragonfly, a broad bodied chaser, patrolling his territory, a pool in a marshy area of Baggeridge Country Park.

Broad bodied chaser flying, Baggeridge