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Ripe crabs

Ripe crabs

Ripe crabs apples on one of the trees at the back of Compton Lock.

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Glistening ink cap variety

Glistening ink cap variety

Glistening ink caps, quite common growing in thight clumps near or on dead trees or stumps. Pictures show them at different stages of aging.

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Bridgnorth goosander pair again

Bridgnorth goosander pair again

Post originally scheduled for publication in March, displaced at the time of lockdown .

Once again the river at Bridgnorth was high. Two male goosanders were swimming by the upstream tip of the Bylet, one eager for offerings of bread.

The female was on a pool formed where the water had overflowed onto the Bylet, before she was joined by her mate, and they headed to the mainstream as a pair again.

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Butterbur flowering, the Paddock

Butterbur flowering, the Paddock

Post scheduled for publication in March, displaced at the time of lockdown.

Butterbur flowering near the Smestow Brook, in the Paddock at Newbridge.

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Wrinkled Club Fungus among fallen leaves

Wrinkled Club Fungus

Wrinkled club fungus growing among short grass surrounded by fallen leaves.

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Web of webs

Web of webs

Robust-looking support threads holding spiders’ webs festooned on the anti-climb structure on a pipe crossing a side-arm of the canal.