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Comma butterflies on thistle flowers

Comma butterfly on thistle flower

Comma butterflies resting or feeding on thistle flowers. Thistles are a favourite food plant of the adults of this species.

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Rabbit by gorse bushes

Rabbit by gorse bushes

Rabbit resting in the sun in Sutton Park, with gorse bushes nearby in case a retreat is needed.

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Keepers Pool, Summer

Keepers Pool

A view looking across Keepers Pool in Sutton Park earlier this summer.

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Roadside (wild) spurge, seeds beginning to ripen

Roadside (wild) spurge, seeds beginning to ripen

Spurge plant growing by the side of a road passing through woodland, its seeds just beginning to ripen. As often with the wild relatives of garden plant species, it is much less showy than the cultivar.

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Gatekeeping squirrel

Gatekeeping squirrel

Squirrel on the top bar of a gate, keeping an eye on me as it nibbled at something tasty.

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Not quite ready to sow

Not quite ready to sow

Wild oats: the seeds not yet completely ripe.