A carrion crow striding along the bank of the lake at West Park. It had just stepped down to the edge of the water with a chunk of bread in its beak, dunked the bread in the water, then eaten it.
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Crow by the lakeside, West Park
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Basking frog
Frog basking in the sun, inches from water in case it needs to take a dip to cool down, or to retreat if it feels threatened.
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Copper beeches, May
Copper beech trees soon after their leaves fully opened last month. One by the side of Richmond Road, the other Tettenhall Road.
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Coot chick grooming contortions
A now well-grown coot chick on the West Park lake preening. Contorting its neck to reach the down behind its head, possibly because the down it hatched with was now being superseded by adult feathers.
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Stretch and sip
One of the West Park swans rose out of the water to stretch its muscles. Then it rested back down and twosted its neck to dip its beak in the water.
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Ashy mining bee at work
An ashy mining bee, busy gathering pollen from, if I remember correctly, hawkbit flowers growing as weeds on the side streets near the city centre Sainsbury’s.