Peacock butterflies (or possibly just one peacock butterfly) at rest on a sunny morning. One on a dustbin lid, one on a door.
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Rising over a water surface green with floating vegetation, a couple of the white water lily flowers on the Old Nursery Pond in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
Well-grown moorhen chick stalking off along the canal bank to get away from a sudden bout of activity at Compton Lock.
Ropening berries changing colour on a wild arum (lords and ladies) by the Railway Walk at Compton.
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Common darter flying (record shots)
Common darter dragonfly flying over the waters of the Turner’s Field pond in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. It was defending its territory against another individual. Record shots (euphemistic way of saying I wish I’d got better pictures).
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Ripening sloes, lichen, Barley Field
Sloes still slowly ripening on the blackthorns on the edge of the Barley Field, lichens on the branches carrying them.