A breezy day, pictures taken on a mobile phone: result, lots of motion blur on these close-ups of flowers and fruits on a Himalayan honeysuckle in a front garden opposite Bantock Park.
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Seen on a breezy day
Tapered drone fly, a common hoverfly species. gathering the easily accessible pollen from a Japanese anemone flower.
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Fallen shaggy parasol
A shaggy parasol. It may have been kicked over, or perhaps some of the snails and slugs which had eaten chunks out of the cap had also nibbled away at the base of its stem.
A white-tailed bumble bee busy gathering pollen from the cone flowers in a front garden.
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Canada gosling ashore
The West Park Canada geese parents, like the swans. were left with one surviving young. Here they were keeping guard as it fed by the edge of the lake.
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No smoke without red hot pokers
I don’t know if this was a deliberate bit of conceptual planting, with the red hot poker flowers next to the smoke bush/