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Berries beginning to ripen – and it isn’t autumn yet, whatever the weather.

It wasn’t long since the same plant was flowering.

This beetle was heading through short grass with a determined air.

A young bird was using the bandstand roof as a lookout post. On the picture taken with a standard lens (below) it is barely visible silhouetted against the sky.

This was probably another member of the same family, hunting on the ground nearby.

A few cultivated (or escapee) hawkbits were growing on a lawn which was being taken over by wild ones.

The wild plant has yellow flowers, one to a stem. Cultivated varieties tend to the orange. They are sometimes, as here, yellow towards the centre of the flower, may have smaller flowers and more than one per stem.

This velvety-textured fungus can be seen growing at pretty much any time of year. The trees they prefer are elders, as here.

This medicinal herb has been used as a sedative for at least a couple of thousand years.