Stickweed: the little hooks which cover the plant make it hold firmly on to most kinds of fabric, or to the fur of any mammal which gets to close. The flower was just opening at the end of this stem.
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Moving fast, coot chicks
Growing fast, and mostly moving fast as they swam across West Park lake, some of this year’s coot chicks.
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Two types of umbellifers
Two of the many, many different types of umbellifers which can be found growing wild. These were both by the Severn in Shrewsbury recently.
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Yellow and black: sun fly
Sun fly, one of the commoner hoverflies, resting on a leaf.
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Yellow: laburnum flowers
Flowers hanging down from the lowest branch of its tree.
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Greylag gosling, growing fast
One of this year’s West Park greylag goslings feeding alongside one of its parents (the other goslings and adults were all nearby).
In just a few short weeks it’s grown from a fluffy little bundle of down to reach adult size or thereabouts.