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Fresh oak apple

Fresh oak gall

This oak apple, on a tree on the edge of Barley Field, can only have started developing very shortly before the picture was taken. Perhaps it is this colouring which gives these galls the “apple” tag.

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Female orange tip butterfly

Female orange tip butterfly

Female orange tip butterfly resting on a nettle leaf.

Female orange tip butterfly

Only the males have the distinctive orange tip on their wings.

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Young fern uncurling

Young fern uncurling

Tip of a young fern, its leaves beginning to spread. Threads of spider silk were catching the sunlight.

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Buzzard rising, Pendeford Mill

Buzzard rising, Pendeford Mill

Buzzard rising on a thermal on its first flight of the day at Pendeford Mill.

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Starling searching new-mown grass for insects

Starling searching new-mown grass for insects

Starling prospecting the recently-mown grass by a pedestrian crossing for food.

Starling searching new-mown grass for insects

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Yellow poppy flower

Yellow poppy flower

Possibly a Welsh poppy, which often (as here) grows self-sown in gardens.