Crane fly (a.k.a. daddy long legs) resting on a leaf one one of the bushes in West Park, warming itself in the morning sun.
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Male stonechat (towards the centre of each picture) on a vantage point on a tall stalk rising above a gorse bush on the slopes of the Malvern Hills. A female can also just about be made out towards the left in the first image.
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Lone stinkhorn, Himley Plantation
Lone common stinkhorn fungus growing in Himley Plantation. A small dryad’s saddle bracket fungus can also be seen with the fruiting body just beginning to emerge from the trunk of the nearby tree.
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Bullocks grazing, Malvern slope
Bullocks grazing on a patch of hillside set off with electric fencing, on the slope of the Malvern hills. The blacl and white ones are Belted Galloways; the brown, young Highland Cattle.
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Common darters standing, Baggeridge
Common darter dragonflies standing on vegetation on the edge of one of the pools at Baggeridge Country Park. The male has the redder body, the female areas of green and of blue.
Elephant hawk moth caterpillar moving fast crossing the tarmac of a footpath.