Gatekeeper butterflies – these were on the lower slopes of Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Country Park, and the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.
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Shady dining area
This year’s West Park cygnets feeding in the shady dining area provided by the branches of a weeping willow overhanging the boating lake.
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Mating time, carp, West Park
Carp in the West Park boating lake thrashing near the shore as the weather got hot enough to trigger mating.
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Common blue butterflies (male)
Two male common blue butterflies, one by the beach at Dunwich, Suffolk. The other resting on more verdant vegetation on the lower slopes of Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park.
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Purple poppies: bud to seed head
Purple garden poppies seen in different stages of development from the still-closed flower bud through to seed heads just beginning to ripen.
The West Park swan family taking a gentle glide, sailing round the lake to the far shore before the cygnets began to preen vigorously, following the example of the parent birds.