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West Park parakeets eating alder seeds

West Park parakeets eating alder seeds

The ring-necked parakeet pair in West Park. One is feeding on an alder on an island on the lake while the other keeps on watch.

Neither bird has the red patch of feathers at the back of the neck (the “ring” of their name) which marks the male. But they are definitely acting like they are paired.

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Views from canal bridges

View from canal bridge: Hinksford Wharf

Staffs & Worcs Canal seen from two of the bridges crossing it. Hinksford Wharf on a sunny winter day, and the morning sunlight on the new growth on a weeping willow at Newbridge.

View from canal bridge: sunlit willow

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Sharing the bath water

Sharing the bath water

Two of the geese at Northycote Farm, bathing together in the same tub of water. Each of the birds seemed to be preening the other one’s feathers as they swam round and round.

Sharing the bath water

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Former mill, Greensforge

Greensforge Mill

In centuries gone by, the Smestow provided power to many water mills. This one, at Greensforge, was built in the late 1800s and stopped working as a cornmill in the 1920s. The buildings are preserved through being subject to an apartment conversion.

Greensforge Mill