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Fern growing on the canal bank, overhanging the water, near to Aldersley Junction.

Young cormorant which seemed for a while like it might be settling down on West Park boating lake island back in 2016. It hung around for several weeks in late winter and early spring, using this tall dead tree as its lookout post and taking regular flights for one of the fish in the lake. Then it was gone.

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.

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

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

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.