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Lone ear of wheat

Lone ear of wheat

Lone ear on a single stalk of wheat, growing in a garden under a bird seed feeder.

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Ruddy darter, Baggeridge

Ruddy darter, Baggeridge

Male ruddy darter dragonfly perching on vegetation near a small pool in Baggeridge Country Park at the start of the month.

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Getting together: large white butterflies

Getting together: large white butterflies

Two large white butterflies on a patch of damp ground. They walked towards each other, then stood facing, seemed to sniffing each other with their antennae.

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Goats, Baggeridge Country Park

Goat, Baggeridge Country Park

Probably brought in as an eco-friendly way of controlling the vegetation in the area where Toposcope Hill comes down to Bags Pool, a small group of goats. When I noticed them, they were resting in deep shade to avoid the mid-morning heat.

Goat, Baggeridge Country Park

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Heavy-laden visitors: bumblebees, St John’s wort

Heavy-laden visitor: bumblebee, St John's wort

Bumblebees gathering from St John’s wort flowers, their pollen baskets so heavily-laden they look full already.

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Canada goose family, Bags Pool

Canada goose family, Bags Pool

The edge of Bags Pool, Baggeridge Country Park. A family of Canada geese, two adults with three young, themselves already in adult plumage, but half the size of their parents.

Canada goose family, Bags Pool