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Strange fungus growing on damson stump

Strange fungus growing on damson stump

Strange fungus, blue-grey mounds with buff-coloured tips, like a little range of hills growing on a damson stump.

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Cygnets, Spring Pool, Baggeridge Country Park

Cygnets, Spring Pool, Baggeridge Country Park

Cygnets with their protective parents on the edge of Spring Pool, Baggeridge Country Park

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Betony flower with visiting bee, canalside

Betony flower with visiting bee, canalside

Betony flower with a visiting bee, canalside opposite the Wildside Centre recently.

Betony flower with visiting bee, canalside

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Heron high in tree, sunbathing, West Park

Heron high in tree, sunbathing, West Park

A hot midday. A heron flew towards West Park’s boating lake island, and landed high in the trees. In the few seconds while I moved round to get a clearer view of it, it had spread its wings and was sunbathing.

Heron high in tree, sunbathing, West Park

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Orange ball tree flowering, Compton Rough

Orange ball tree flowering, Compton Rough

Orange ball tree flowers. The bush is a type of buddleia. In the right conditions it is attractive to butterflies – not on the evening these pictures were taken.

Orange ball tree flowering, Compton Rough

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Flowers on tall umbellifer, from below

Flowers on tall umbellifer

Flowers on a tall umbellifer, well over my head height, seen from below. Possibly an angelica.

Flowers on tall umbellifer