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Goldfinch, on top of tree, calling

Goldfinch, on top of tree, calling

Goldfinch in full display mode recently, perched right on the top of a tree and singing at full volume.

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Meadowsweet flowers

Meadowsweet flowers

Meadowsweet flowers: from a distance a frothy mass, and a magnet for bees and hoverflies.

In centuries gone by, meadowsweet was mixed in with the rushes used as floor covering, and as a flavouring for beer prior to the use of hops.

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Fly feeding on umbellifer flower

Fly feeding on umbellifer flower

Bluebottle, or another species of blowfly, feeding on the flowers of an umbellifer, and so intent on the task that it let me get near enough for close-ups.

Fly feeding on umbellifer flower

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Chinese pagoda primrose, seeds ripening

Chinese pagoda primrose, seeds ripening

Some of the Chinese pagoda primroses in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm,the seeds now starting to ripen. One of the same plants earlier, when it was flowering, here.

Chinese pagoda primrose, seeds ripening

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Yellows: hoverfly on sow thistle flower

Yellows: hoverfly on sow thistle flower

Yellow and black pattern of a hoverfly feeding on the yellow flower of a sow thistle.

Yellows: hoverfly on sow thistle flower

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Wild raspberries, ripening

Wild raspberry, ripening

Wild raspberries, with a lot less drupelets than cultivated varieties, but still looking as tempting as they ripened.