Your photos: Bird song and horsing around

News imageBBC Weather Watchers/Peter58home A bird with its beak open sits on a twig. The bird is mainly brown in colour with some white feathers.BBC Weather Watchers/Peter58home
News imageBBC Weather Watchers/Beefy Several men in Halesowen lean on a railing next to a green football pitch with white lines marking out the pitch. Several players can be seen in the distance.BBC Weather Watchers/Beefy

This great bird snap was taken in Shirley, Solihull.
The football league season is nearly here and for many, with pre-season and non-league matches under way, the club game is already back.

We love to feature your photographs showing the beauty of the West Midlands and here are some of the best from the past week.

Upload your images via BBC Weather Watchers or email us at [email protected].

For inspiration, view some top tips here from three of England's Big Picture photographers.

News imageBBC Weather Watchers/Videoman A man in a blue coat and black trousers stands with a foot on the back of two horses. Behind him, a woman in a black and red outfit does the same on two different horses. Behind them, an audience looks on, in front of white tents.BBC Weather Watchers/Videoman
Horse riders put on a show in Leek, Staffordshire

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