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Feeding time: female blackbird, Bantock Park

Feeding time: female blackbird, Bantock Park

Bantock Park: a female blackbird searching through short grass for worms or other food to take back for young on the nest.

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Baggeridge goat on a hot, hot day

Baggeridge goat on a hot, hot day

One of the scrub control goats at Baggeridge Country Park. By mid-morning it was already very hot, and the goats main aim was to find some shade.

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Froglet on birdbath rim

Froglet on birdbath rim

Young frog finding a shady spot by water to cool itself on a hot, sunny day. Small, but probably too big to have been one of this year’s tadpoles.

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Greenfly on a broom flower

Greenfly on a broom flower

Another unwelcome insect garden visotor, some type of greenfly. It was at least on its own, and seemed just to be resting on the broom flower.

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Gosling feeding frenzy

Gosling feeding frenzy

Goslings enthusiastically eating vegetation at the side of the canal and preening. At Dimmingsdale as the Canada goose parents watched from nearby.

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White-lipped snail slowly advancing

White-lipped snail slowly advancing

Slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y advancing up a leaf, a white-lipped snail, the common garden snail.