A pair of mallards on the canal at Castlecroft, which chose to start mating just as we we were passing.
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Lichen variety
Lichens seen on a short stretch of the Smestow Valley Reserve between the Barley Field and Compton Lock.
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Still searching for frogspawn
I’m still on the lookout for any frogspawn this year, so far without success. In the meantime, these, of frogs spawning amid frogspawn, are from 2010. From the lower pond in the garden at Wightwick manor
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Leaf buds about to open: oak
The future leaves still tightly packed together, buds on one of the Barley Field oaks just before they open.
It seems that troops of glistening inkcap mushrooms are springing up all over the place this spring. These were on the top of a log which fell several years ago on the dge of the Paddock in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.
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Flowering by the canal, together
Flowering almost next to one another on the canal bank, a few yards from Meccano Bridge, a butterbur and a patch of lesser celandines.
