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Moot brook, Bilbrook

Moot brook, Bilbrook

Moot Brook, seen from the pleasant walkway created by Bilbrook Friends of Bilbrook Jubilee Wood.

Moot brook, Bilbrook

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Magpie searching lawn

Magpie searching lawn

Magpie, diligently searching under the grass of lawn for something to eat.

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Yellows: bumblebee on coneflower

Yellows: bumblebee on coneflower

Yellows on the bee’s body, the petals and the nectar of the coneflower being visited by a bumblebee.

Yellows: bumblebee on coneflower

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Brown hawker on patrol

Brown hawker on patrol

Brown hawker dragonfly on patrol along its territory, a short stretch of the canal where it runs between the racecourse and Aldersely Stadium.

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Blackberries: half-ripe, ripe, over-ripe

Blackberries: half-ripe, ripe, over-ripe

Blackberries: at every stage of developing: half-ripe, ripe, over-ripe. These were growing just a few inches from the dasons in yesterday’s post.

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Three mallards on stone

Three mallards

Three mallards on a stone in the canal. Two probably hatched this spring, now well grown, with the other their mother. The nearest young bird stretches for a sip of the water, stands up and stretches its wings.