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Down for a drink: carrion crow

Down for a drink: carrion crow

Carrion crow carefully climbing down to the edge of West Park lake for a drink of water. Then climbing back up the sloping wall, where it found something interesting towards the top.

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Red on green: sorrel flowering

Red on green: sorrel flowering

Red (or reddish) flowers rising from the green of the background vegetation.

Red on green: sorrel flowering

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Snail turning, tip of bulrush leaf

Snail turning, tip of bulrush leaf

Noticed by the canal yesterday, bulrush with half a dozen pond snails on its leaf. The snail in this series had reached the very tip of its leaf, and was carefully doing a three point turn go head back downwards.

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The prince in a front garden

The prince in a front garden

The prince, originally a woodland mushroom, can now occasionally be found in more urban settings. This cluster were growing in a front garden, half-hidden by flowers.

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Grasses: flowering, seeds

Grass

Variations in the form of grass flowers and the subsequent seed heads: a small random sample.

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Green veined white butterfly on buttercup

Green veined white butterfly on buttercup

Green veined white butterfly settling briefly on a buttercup by the canal opposite the Wildside Centre.