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Green, purple: developing cones

Green, purple: developing cones

Cones just beginning to develop on one of the conifers in West Park, green nearer their stems and a purple colour towards the tips.

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Sleeping duck trios, West Park

Sleeping duck trio, West Park

Two trios of mallards, asleep not far from West Park’s boating lake recenty. The groups were on different sides of the path around the lake, with only ten or so yards separating them.

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Bridgnorth castle wall wallflowers

Bridgnorth castle wall wallflowers

Wallflowers flowering from the stonework of the precariously leaning remaining walls of Bridgnorth Castle recently.

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Lupins, New Place garden

Lupins, New Place garden

Some of the lupins in flower in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust property, New Place, in Stratford on Avon.

Lupins, New Place garden

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Magpie by boating lake, West Park

Magpie by boating lake, West Park

One of the West Park magpies, by the edge of the boating lake after taking a drink of the water, then on the fence at the edge of the lake.

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Swans and cygnets, West Park

Cygnets, West Park

Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.