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Wild flowers by a field of barley

Wildflowers by a field of ripening barley

Pattingham is just about visible on the skyline.

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Gatekeeper butterflies

Gatekepper butterfly

Also known as the hedge brown, this is Britain’s commonest butterfly.

These individuals, on the Saltwells LNR in Brierley Hill, were unusually cooperative.

Gatekepper butterfly

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Distant views of Shropshire hills

Distant view of the Wrekin

The view looking towards the Wrekin (above) was taken in Bradley, Staffordshire. The corn field below was just outside Badger, Shropshire. Titterstone Clee and Brown Clee are just about visible on larger versions of the photo (click on picture to go to Flickr for these larger versions).

Looking over a corn field for a distant view of the Clees

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Grasses seeds ripening

Grass seed ripening

Just a small sampling of the variation in form of the seed-heads of different grasses.

Grass seed ripening

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Newt tadpole

Newtpole

Young newt, still looking more fish than amphibian. Pictured just over a month ago.

Newtpole

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Funnel spider web

Funnel spider web

The conditions meant the funnel in this web showed clearly.