This insect with its huge eyes is a hoverfly. It was visiting the flowers on the umbellifers in the Barley Field, in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.
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Ragwort about to bloom
This tight mass of flower buds were on a ragwort which was about to flower.
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Thistle flowers
This sturdy thistle was growing in someone’s front garden, and evidently thrived during the recent wet weather.
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Acorns beginning to grow on an exotic oak
These acorns were beginning to develop on one of the exotic oak trees in Bantock Park recently.
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Bee gathering nectar, early morning
This bumble bee seemed to be systematically visiting every flower on a St John’s wort in mid-July.
It was only seven o’clock in the morning, but its pollen baskets already looked full.
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Magpie on a lawn
This magpie was so busy looking for something in the lawn that it was ignoring the busy Tettenhall Road.