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White butterfly on lavender flower

White butterfly on lavender flower

This flower patch is by a path next to the river Severn in Bridgnorth, marking the site of the foundry where Richard Trevithick’s Locomotive Catch me who can was built.

White butterfly on lavender flower

White butterfly on lavender flower

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Distant views of the Clees

Distant views of the Clees

Views of the Clee Hills from a mile or so east of the Severn.

Distant views of the Clees

Distant views of the Clees

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Giant, not Sulfur, polypore – West Park

Sulfur polypore

This fungus formed a mound-like structure yards from the Albert Road entrance to West Park.

Sulfur polypore

CORRECTION, August 2013. This is NOT a sulfur polypore, but rather the not very similar looking giant polypore.

I was stone cold sober when I made the misidentification.

Pictures of this year’s return of the fungus to be posted soon.

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Greenish frog

Greenish frog

Compare the colour to that of the frog featuring a few days ago, whose picture was taken in almost the same spot.

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Lords and ladies berries

Lords and ladies berries

A common sight in hedgerows in the early autumn, a wild arum with its distinctive bright red berries on the end of an erect stalk.

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Zoned polypore bracket fungus on a tree trunk

Zoned polypore bracket fungus

A large bracket fungus seen from below (top) and just about from above.

Zoned polypore bracket fungus