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Tawny miner bee, a solitary springtime bee, resting on a leaf. It was shuffling round on the spot, giving me pictures from different angles.

The fallen branch which the West Park turtle uses for lounging in the sun is now becoming more popular with other denizens of the lake. Here a greylag goose gets in on the act

Crab spider peeping out from behind a leaf on a bay bush (pictures below), and what may be the same spider resting, sunning itself, on a leaf of the bush.

A group of mallard ducklings and the mother duck dozing on the side of the canal at Aldersley, almost directly opposite the canal junction. One of the first things I saw coming home from my second COVID jab.

German wasp allowing me to get quite near for some close-up shots as it rested, warming itself, on a holly leaf. Despite the name, it’s one of the commonest wasps around.

To me it looks like a wasp, but the AI identification on iNaturalist claims it is a species of nomad bee. If so, it’s a kleptoparasite, a “cuckoo bee” – laying its eggs in the nests of other bee species, like cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.