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Green acorns

Green acorns

Unripe acorns in a picture which seems to consist of different shades of green.

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Common darters

Common darter

When the new pool at Compton Park became accessible last month, there were three species of dragonfly using it. The only ones being cooperative enough to be identifiable in photos were common darters.

Common darter

A couple of the common darters kept resting on the decking by the bridge over the pool.

Common darter

Other favoured resting spots were on vegetation at the side of the pool.

Common darter

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Distorted

Twinned

Scarletina boletes growing with distorted shapes on the grass by the Finchfield shops. A pair growing together …

Twinned

and one with a lobed cap.

Ochreous

Other mushrooms from the same group have featured here.

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Bee in a dahlia

Bee in a dahlia

Bumblebee making an early morning foraging visit to a dahlia flower.

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Old man’s beard flowers, insects eating

Hoverfly

Hoverfly,peacock butterfly (in two pictures), bumblebee and large white butterfly all feeding on the flowers of the same old man’s beard plant.

Peacock butterfly

The pictures were all taken at the same time, on a sunny day about a month ago when the plant’s flowers were at their height.

Bumblebee

Peacock butterfly

Large white butterfly

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Sloes, not yet ripe

Sloes

Sloes darkening as they begin to ripen. If the weather continues to be favourable there should be a good crop this year.

Sloes