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Coot sitting on short grass by the path round West Park lake, with its head stretched out to perhaps twice the usual length.

Bees are not the only insects attracted to spring flowers. This fly was on a camellia on the same West Park bush as the bumblebee pictured a couple of days ago.

I noticed these tulips as I passed various front gardens recently – some are still tightly wrapped buds, others almost open.

Spring, and as the flowers begin to open, the insects start to gather pollen and nectar. This was a bumblebee on one of the camelia flowers in West Park recently.

The new growth on some plants is red before turning green as it matures. The garden shrub pieris has a particularly vivid red, presumably selected for.

These were on plants growing in two front gardens not far from each other.

Pussy willow catkins on a young tree by the West Park lake, covered in pollen and attracting a roving bee.