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Ivy flower buds

Ivy flower buds

Buds of ivy flowers, pictured a month or so back, before the flowers opened.

Ivy flower buds

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Vivid September dawn with flying geese

Vivid September dawn with flying geese

Taken on the same morning as the recent post, this picture features a gaggle of the Canada geese from West Park taking their first flight of the morning.

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Dragonfly resting on purple loosestrife

Dragonfly resting on purple loosestrife

The dragonfly made a brief pause from its hunting, and rested on a late-blooming purple loosestrife flower.

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Magpie in the stubble

Magpie in the stubble

A magpie on the search for food in a partly mown cornfield.

Magpie in the stubble

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Vivid September dawn

Vivid September dawn

Dramatic colouring as the sun rose on the last day of September.

Vivid September dawn

The weather later that day fitted with the old saying, “Red sky at morning …”

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Head-on views of a meadow brown butterfly feeding on a thistle flower

Meadow brown butterfly feeding on a thistle flower

This is the same meadow brown butterfly shown in the first picture in yesterday’s post.

Meadow brown butterfly feeding on a thistle flower