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Berries beginning to ripen while the flowers were still out nearby on a white dogwood bush in a front garden.

Sow thistles can often be spotted at the garden wall edge of pavements in the suburbs, where they can get towards a couple of feet tall. This one was growing rooted in the mortar half way up a garden wall, looking healthy despite a stem only a few inches long.

This coot and its mate, which was swimming just out of shot, were the first to have chicks hatch this year. The chicks are now long gone.

A cluster of glistening inkcaps growing on wood chip mulch in a front garden. The caps of these mushrooms do indeed sometimes glisten, but not when these pictures were taken.

A young rat in West Park dragging something several times its own length. Not sure what it was, but the rat was very determined to drag it along, and eventually made the security of some shrubbery.

The same boletes growing by forcing their way through the tarmac of a pavement as in a recent post. Here seen on a revisit four days later, with one of the mushrooms greatly enlarged.