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Yarrow flowering

Yarrow flowering

A bunch of delicate white flowers growing at about knee height.

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Fly feeding on St Johns wort

Fly feeding on St Johns wort

Shiny eyes and carapace, wings which are veined, glittering and transparent, and hairy at the extremes. Just a fly, but what a range of textures.

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Thistle flowering, Barley Field

Thistle flowering

A thistle in Barley Field, Smestow Valley LNR, with the top flower fully open, and the others just about to open too.

Thistle flowering

Thistle flowering

Thistle flowering

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Web catching the rain

Web catching the rain

The summer has been so wet that it would be hard to get many pictures without going out on rainy days. At least that makes it easier to find spider’s webs showing up because of the water drops hanging from them. The web was in Barley Field recently.

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Path becoming overgrown, Barley Field

Overgrown path, Barley Field

This used to be the main path across the Barley Field in Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. Compton Park (behind the hedge) started to be redeveloped in the spring. Now the grass is taking over the path.

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Bolete on a lawn

Penny bun

The red-cracking bolete was growing on a lawn I pass when I am walking into the city centre.

Penny bun