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#lockdown – swan landing, West Park

#lockdown - swan landing

West Park lake, earlier this week, with a swan coming down on the water right where I was already pointing the camera. A Canada geese and a couple of goslings managed to slip into one shot as well.

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#lockdown – Two cygnets, West Park

Two cygnets, West Park

This year’s two West Park cygnets, by the edge of the lake, eating.

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#lockdown – unwelcome visitors

Rose aphid laying eggs

Rose aphid with twenty or so young ones, on a rose leaf.

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#lockdown – nesting coots

#lockdown - nesting coots

Coots on their nests on West Park lake, probably brooding eggs.

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Smestow and Tene

Smestow at Seidson

View of the River Smestow and of one of its tributary brooks.

Smestow seen at Seisdon, Trysull and at Trescott Ford.

Tene Brook just about to pass under the Railway Walk by Lower Penn, and at Awbridge. Both pictures of the brook taken on the same day. Awbridge is further downstream, but the brook there is carrying less water. Is some perhaps extracted for watering fields between these two places?

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Mixed dining – two gosling species

Mixed dining - two gosling species

West Park: two sets of goslings, Canada and greylag geese, eating on the same daisy covered patch of short grass