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Bryony flowers and tiny moth

Bryony flower

A tiny day-flying moth rests on the leaf next to some bryony flowers.

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Bryony stem with cuckoo spit

Bryony stem with cuckoo spit

Close-up of a bryony stem, showing a tendril used to clasp onto other plants for support. There is cuckoo-spit where the stem divides.

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Bryony flower close-up

Bryony flower close-up

Flower of a bryony growing in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

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Fluffy French duckling

Fluffy French duckling

Fluffy duckling on the pool of a small park in the southern French coastal resort of Cassis.

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Out for a swim

Moorhen chick

Young moorhen chick swimming out into the middle of the canal at Compton, watched over by one of the parents.

Moorhen chick

Moorhen chick

Moorhen and chick

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Spider nursery

Spider nursery

Mass of young cross spiders huddling together in a web. The spiderlets had disappeared by the next morning, together with almost all evidence of the web.