Badger village and nearby. The village itself, with its thatched cottages and two ponds right by the road. I didn’t manage to get down into the Dingle on this visit, so I missed the third pond, the stream, and the remains of old houses carved into the rock.
Nearby, the large lake of the recently closed park at Patshull. On the way between the two, a big pond, formerly feeding a mill.
Dryad’s saddle fungi growing on a fallen log by the Railway Walk near Lower Penn.
Robins pincushion, a reddish, hair-like growth on wild rose bushes like this one in the roadside hedge at the bottom of Pattingham hill. A gall caused by larvae of a wasp.
Devon red cows and calves in a field at Wombourne. I was told by passers-by that the herd are kept for showing.
Dunnock by the Railway Walk in the cutting at Compton. Didn’t fly off even though it saw me only a few yards away, so perhaps a young vird.
Green-veined white butterfly, feeding on alkanet flowers, holding its wings together and so showing the green veining on the underside.