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Thistle flower with long tailed insects

Thistle flower with long tailed insects

There are two tiny insects with very long tails feeding on this thistle flower.

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Unripe damsons

Unripe damsons

These fruit have swollen pretty much to full size, but have not yet begun to change colour.

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Black headed gulls feeding on a golf course

Black headed gulls feeding on a golf course

These gulls were busily feeding on short grass by a lake next to a golf course, but when someone came along they took flight instantly.

Black headed gulls feeding on a golf course

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Swan cleaning itself

Swan cleaning itself

A swan paying attention to its wing feathers.

Swan cleaning itself

Swan cleaning itself

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Female banded agrion damselfly

Female banded agrion damselfly

A damselfly with a metallic green body and almost transparent green wings. This female kept shuffling her position slightly as she rested on a reed leaf near the Packhorse Bridge in Marsh Lane NLR, Hampton in Arden.

Female banded agrion damselfly

Female banded agrion damselfly

Female banded agrion damselfly

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Water snails

Water snail

Snails on the small pond at the Coombes Valley RSPB Reserve in Staffordshire.

Water snail

There is also a water boatman towards the right in the picture below.

Water snail and water boatman