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Tree bumble bees

Tree bumble bee

Tree bumble bees -one feeding on an alkanet flower. Another landed for a short break on a garden table.

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Cucumber green spider and fly

Cucumber green spider and fly

This tiny cucumber green spider had just caught a fly in its web when I noticed it, and was now binding the insect in silken threads.

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Garden chafer on rose petal

Garden chafer on rose petal

Garden chafer deep in a flower on a rose bush.on a petal it was systematically eating. One picture shows the beetle half-hidden by the petals towards the centre of the flower. In the other shots, these petals have been held back to let full light fall on the chafer, showing its stunning colours and the depredation it had made on the petal.

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Lone gosling (greylag)

Lone gosling (greylag)

Another visit to West Park, another view of the greylag goose parents very protective of their lone gosling, which this time was feeding on a grassed patch near the bridge.

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Azure damselfly selection

Azure damselfly selection

Azure damselflies resting on vegetation. Pictures taken earlier this month.

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Cygets, start of this month

Cygets, start of this month

The West Park cygnets with their parents. Pictures taken at the start of the month – I’ve just noticed I didn’t get round to posting them.