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/
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Cygnet afloat, West Park
The West Park cygnet being escorted by its parents across the lake, and briefly imitating the pen’s feeding by the far bank.
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The smallest giant polypores
Giant polypores, quite a common fungus at this time of year. The fruiting bodies can get to quite a good size, and usually grow as a big cluster. But these had emerged confined between the tarmac of a pavement and a brick wall, limiting their size.
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Cygnet ashore, West Park
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.