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Tall, tall pampas grass, Northycote Farm

Tall, tall pampas grass, Northycote Farm

There’s a clump of tall, tall pampas grass in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm. The tips of the seed heads must be a good twelve feet off the ground.

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Turnstone in exposed seaweed, St Ives beach

Turnstone in exposed seaweed, St Ives beach

Turnstone searching for food in the exposed seaweed, on St Ives beach towards low tide.

Turnstone in exposed seaweed, St Ives beach

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Seeds developing: snowdrops

Seeds developing: snowdrops

Seeds developing, beginning to ripen: snowdrops by the canal near Aldersley Junction recently.

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Violets flowering, Aldersley Junction

Violets flowering, Aldersley Junction

Violets flowering, with stickweed encroaching, right by Aldersley Junction. They were in the remains of a flower bed right by the canal junction – was there once a toll house on the site? So they might be a domesticated variety.

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Taking it easy

A first experiment in slow motion filming. Mallard drakes and a first winter black-headed gull.

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Hyacinth about to flower, Sensory Garden, Northycote Farm

Hyacinth about to flower, Sensory Garden, Northycote Farm

Hyacinth just about to flower. This one was in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm.