The Sutton Park heather was just coming into flower at the very beginning of the month.
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Cinnabar moth caterpillar
The cinnabar moth is a brightly-coloured, day-flying moth. Like its caterpillar it is brightly coloured, to advertise that it is poisonous. The poisons are absorbed from ragworts, the home and food of the caterpillar.
View looking upstream from the footbridge in the country park, between Alveley and Highley.
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Coot chicks
The red on the head of these coot chicks makes them look more like very young moorhens.
These pictures were taken just a few minutes walk from the city centre.
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Teazles in flower
These teazles, in the Severn Valley Country Park, had a visiting bumble bee.
This plant was next to the one with the bee. Its flowers had almost completely gone over.
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Red berries, green leaves
A composition in complementary colours.