Monday miscellany

Apples, scarcely bruised

Sweet songster, keeping an eye out for worms turned out by weeding

Fading fast - old advertisement in Walthamstow

Three magpies, visiting next door

Wrapped bollards, opposite Southwark tube station

Turkish delights - shopping in Istanbul (thanks, Erika, for the photo!)

Freemartin - an androgenous bull, or a spayed heifer, resulting from a twin pregnancy in which a bull and heifer share a placenta. Both fetuses produce hormones, which mix in the shared placenta , affecting their development. The heifer will be infertile in 90% of cases, and the bull's fertility reduced. Sometimes the heifer will develop parts of the reproductive tract of the male. In some cases there will be no symptoms of freemartinism because the bull calf will have been aborted at an earlier stage of pregnancy.