Probably brought in as an eco-friendly way of controlling the vegetation in the area where Toposcope Hill comes down to Bags Pool, a small group of goats. When I noticed them, they were resting in deep shade to avoid the mid-morning heat.
Heavy-laden visitors: bumblebees, St John’s wort
Bumblebees gathering from St John’s wort flowers, their pollen baskets so heavily-laden they look full already.
Canada goose family, Bags Pool
The edge of Bags Pool, Baggeridge Country Park. A family of Canada geese, two adults with three young, themselves already in adult plumage, but half the size of their parents.
Shoo-fly plant flower
Currently showing, a shoo-fly plant flower (the plant also known as an apple of Peru, apple of Sodom, Peruvian bluebell). A bye-product of putting out birdseed in the winter.
Bindweed with a blush of colour
A blush of purple colour to these bindweed flowers, growing on the wall of the former lock-keeper’s cottage at Wightwick Lock.
Caterpillars galore! Cinnabar moths, ragwort
Cinnabar moth caterpillars galore! Patch of ragworts in flower covered in what seemed to be hundreds of the crawling eating machines.