Plant growing in the area which until recently was fenced off to allow the bedding in of the new pool in the Smestow Valley. I’m not sure what it is, but perhaps an orchid.
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Ripening honeysuckle berries
Honeysuckle berries: they’ll turn a darker red as they become completely ripe.
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Giant polypore on high
Giant polypores are one of the largest of the bracket fungi. This one was infesting a mature oak tree, with the fruiting bodies appearing some ten feet or so off ground level.
The fruiting bodies often grow at ground level, coming from buried wood such as tree roots.
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Black headed gull, Sutton Park
Young black-headed gull scratching its head as it sits on Bracebridge Pool in Sutton Park.
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Plantain seeds (with sugar stealers)
Plantain seeds ripening on their stalks. One has captured some sugar stealers (rosebay willowherb seeds).
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Young spots
Piglets from two different litters of Gloucester Old Spots at Northycote Farm.
They have already featured in a series of posts as they grew, most recently here.
They’re now getting so big they won’t be piglets much longer.
