Partly albinistic carrion crow, distinctive with its patches of white feathers, searches for prey among the short grass of the lawn in front of a block of flats on Finchfield Road.
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Lords and ladies by the Railway Walk, its berries bright red, ripe or almost so. The berries were beginning to look a little wrinkly, beginning to shrivel after a long dry spell.
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Magpie hunting in stubble, Bantock Park
magpie stalking in the then recently-cut stubble of the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, hunting for insects to eat.
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Double-striped pug moth on a window
Double-striped pug moth (Gymnoscelis rufifasciataon) resting on the inside of a window. It’s not been since, so hopefully it managed to return to the open air.
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Bindweed flower, sun fly
A sun fly, a common type of hoverfly, struggling to get deep into a bindweed flower to get at that delicious nectar.
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Tiny spider weaving its web
Tiny spider scurrying back and forth as it was weaving its web between the twigs of a hazel bush.