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Tiny bryony flower

Tiny bryony flower

A tiny flower of a bryony peeping from behind one of the plant’s hairy leaves.

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Greens: birch catkins

Birch catkins

The flowers on birch trees are one of the latest of the catkin-like ones to appear.

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Half-grown coot chick diving for food

Half-grown coot chick diving for food

Coot chick, grown enough to swim off without parental supervision and to dive in search of its own food.

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Fly foraging in buttercup

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Fly in a buttercup flower, its tongue out to eat the nectar.

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West Park acers

Japanese acer seeds

Japanese acers in West Park at the end of last month, with seeds just beginning to develop and giving strong colour contrasts with the vivid leaves.

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Cranesbill: flower and seed head

Cranesbill: flower and seed head

Delicate pink flower of a cranesbill. On the right a flower has gone over and the seed is beginning to ripen in the vaguely beak shaped seed case which gives the plant its name.