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Vase plant flower

Vase plant flower

The flowers are the blue structures and the brighter red structures. The pink “petals” at covers of the flower bud. This is yet another plant from the Conservatory at West Park.

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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