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Buttercup with a tiny insect

Buttercup with small insect

This tiny fly was resting on the edge of a buttercup flower.

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Hazel leaf with galls

Hazel leaf with galls

The raised areas on this leaf are galls, caused by the depredations of some tiny insect.

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Small copper butterfly

Small copper butterfly

A butterfly which, like many species, likes basking on the ground to catch the sun. Small coppers are usually flighty, but this one let me get close enough for a portrait.

This one may be a male: males defend small territories. Notice the chunk missing from the right wing.

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Yellow-cress flowers

Yellow-cress flowers

Probably the marsh yellow-cress.

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Conifer flowers

Conifer flower

Flowers of different conifers.

Conifer flower

Larch flowers

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Close approach from a West Park squirrel

Close approach from a West Park squirrel

This bold squirrel was almost demanding peanuts.

Close approach from a West Park squirrel

Close approach from a West Park squirrel