Category: David

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Muscovy duck drake by the edge of West Park lake, bending his neck in all sorts of impossible-looking ways and spreading his feathers while preening.

Seeds ripening on an elm tree overhanging the canal at Newbridge, developing from flowers seen here from the same tree.

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Lots of orchids, in the midst of plenty of other wild flowers, at Baggeridge Country Park a couple of days ago. There’s one lone pyramidal orchid, the only one I saw. Can you spot which picture it is? The others are spotted orchids, southern marsh orchids, or hybrids of these two species.

The two surviving cygnets on West Park lake. They had come in the hope of blagging some bread, but were content to be eating some of the algae on the stones just offshore.

This year’s West Park swan family on the lake, the adults taking a quick chance to feed while the two remaining cygnets swam nearby.

Mass of white wisteria flowers were hanging down from the vines of the plant on the front of a house on Albert Road last month.