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Exotic conifer flowers

Exotic conifer flower

Flowers on this conifer look like they are tipped in fine hair.

Exotic conifer flower

The pictures show flowers on the same tree and were all taken at the same time. They show the effects of viewing from different angles in the strongly directional light just minutes after sunrise.

Exotic conifer flower

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Conifer cones and flowers

Conifer cones and flowers

Cones beginning to develop alongside the remaining flowers at the end of a twig on one of the West Park conifers.

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Lesser black backed gull on frozen boating lake

Lesser black backed gull on frozen boating lake

Lesser black backed gull which was standing a few feet from the black-headed gull featured yesterday.

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Black poplar

Black poplar

Poplar still showing its bare wintry outline recently. Its catkins have been and gone, and the leaves are yet to appear.

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Black-headed gull on the frozen boating lake

Black-headed gull on the frozen boating lake

Black headed gull standing on the frozen West Park boating lake last weekend. The head feathers aren’t black, but dark brown.

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Sycamore bud and tree

Sycamore bud

Buds about to open on a sycamore tree in Springvale Park, and the tree itself.

Sycamore tree