Your photos: Ducklings and VE Day celebrations

Ria / BBC Weather Watchers A close-up of a fluffy duckling scratching under its chin with its left footRia / BBC Weather Watchers
Kaz / BBC Weather Watchers A VE Day memorial featuring a figure covered in poppies sitting on a bench with a figure of a dog next to him. In the background there is a wreath in figure of 80 made from poppies next to a war memorial, with grass in the foregroundKaz / BBC Weather Watchers

Ria captured this great close up of a duckling in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, this week.
There is a strong flavour of VE Day scenes among the BBC Weather Watchers' photos this week, including this view in Shobdon, Herefordshire.

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

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Logit09 / BBC Weather Watchers A blazing brazier on a tall pole in a field at twilight, with a hedge in the backgroundLogit09 / BBC Weather Watchers
This brazier in Endon, Staffordshire, was one of many beacons for VE Day across the country

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