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Emerged: spindle tree fruit

Spindle tree berries

Fruit of a spindle tree, now fully opened. See this earlier post for how things looked as the fruit had just started to open.

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Fleecy-looking fungus

Fleecy-looking fungus

Unidentified fungus growing on many of the twigs of a roadside shrub. From a distance the white growths looked like fleece, perhaps a cleaner version of the scraps of animal hair which get caught on the prongs of a barbed wire fence.

Fleecy-looking fungus

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Keeping posted: black-headed gull

Keeping posted

Another black-headed gull on a vantage point, this time the crossbar of a goalpost.

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Am I worried? Standing on a sign

Am I worried?

One of West Park’s growing flock of black-headed gulls, unconcerned at the warning message of the notice it is using as a vantage point.

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Mushroom clump by the water’s edge

Mushroom clump by the water's edge

Clump of mushrooms growing right at the edge of a canal – species not identified.

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Heron alone, sunbathing

Heron sunbathing

Taken at the same time as the pictures in the previous two posts, here is the lone heron visible on the island in the other half of the lake, standing in splendid isolation. It was also on the southern shore where it would catch the sun.

Heron sunbathing