The West Park swan parents with this year’s lone cygnet back in early June. I’m hoping to get back soon to see how things have developed there.
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Cygnet ashore, West Park
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Butterfly murals, Trier
Graffiti-art style pictures of butterflies on walls around the centre of Trier. The placings of the paintings made it clear they had been executed with official support.
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Crow on high
Carrion crow high in one of the trees on West Park island: watching and occasionally preening.
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Not on cabbage this time
Large white butterfly caterpillars, notorious for the depredations they can make on cabbages and the like. These were, for a change, eating away at the leaves of Jack by the hedge (aka garlic mustard) plants.
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Off on its own: coot chick
By early June, the first coot chicks were well enough grown to go off swimming on their own. They were still making plaintive cries to get the parents to feed them
Caterpillar inching its way forwards. If it survives the winter, it should emerge next spring as an orange tip butterfly.