The log which the West Park turtle uses for sunbathing, now getting even more crowded. Here also used by a juvenile black-headed gull, and a greylag goose.
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Small tortoiseshell butterfly be a path in the Barley Field, resting with its wings almost folded, gently opening and closing them.
There seems to have been a baby boom along the canal this year, with lots of mallard duclings hatching at once. This little lot are from two broods on the stretch near Mopps Farm bridge, in the countryside beyond Castlecroft
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Lone cowslip, Barley Field
When I took this picture, I had wandered along all the footpaths crossing the Barley Field, and this was the olny cowslip I saw flowering. A few more have since appeared.
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Grey wagtail, Smestow, Compton
Grey wagtail searching for insects on rocks in the Smestow Brook at Compton, in the shadow of a building originally constructed for one of the many mills which used to be powered by the stream.
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Hairy footed flower bees
Hairy-footed flower bees, gathering pollen from alkanet flowers, and just resting on a leaf catching the cun