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Easter bunny

Hare lying low in a barley field

This Easter bunny isn’t a rabbit but, like the German original, a hare (der Osterhase). It is indeed a German hare, keeping its head down in a field of young barley in the Rhineland during last year’s wet spring.

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Lower Green, spring

Lower Green, spring

Springtime view looking down across Tettenhall’s Lower Green.

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Moorhen on a bird table

Moorhen on a bird table

Adventurous moorhen in search of food – on a bird table sampling the peanuts.

Moorhen on a bird table

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Blackthorn flowers on lichen-encrusted twig

Blackthorn flower and lichen-encrusted twig

Delicate blackthorn flowers growing on the end of a twig encrusted in a curly lichen.

The tree they were on was growing in the small Packhorse Bridge Local Nature Reserve outside Hampton in Arden.

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Robin singing and preening

Robin singing and preening

Robin on one of the bushes at the edge of Compton Rough. It kept alternating between preening its right shoulder and singing.

Robin singing and preening

Occasionally it paused to watch its surroundings.

Robin singing and preening

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Coltsfoots with a small insect

Coltsfoots with a small insect

Small insect prospecting one of a group of coltsfoots. The flowerscolour seemed to be echoed where the sun was catching the insect’s carapace.

Coltsfoots with a small insect