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Dog’s mercury, budding, Northycote

Dog's mercury, budding, Northycote

Dog’s mercury growing in the woodland area at Northycote Farm, flower buds developing but not yet open.

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Wasp on camelia flower

Wasp on camelia flower

Wasp on a camelia flower, pausing before it heads for the centre to get some pollen.

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Mining bee, possibly early mining bee

Mining bee, possibly yellow-legged

Mining bee, a different species than the one featured in a post yesterday. This one many be an early mining bee.

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Climbing up an oak, bracket fungi

Climbing up an oak, bracket fungi

Sequence of bracket fungi growing in a split in the bark of a large oak by the roadside at the edge of Seisdon.

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Mining bee, possibly yellow-legged

Mining bee, possibly yellow-legged

Mining bee, solitary bee seen early in the season. ID’d by iNaturalist as a yellow-legged mining bee. If that’s correct, it was towards the northern edge of its range.

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Coltsfoot by canal

Coltsfoot by canal

I’ve seen very few coltsfoots this year. These were flowering right at the edge of the canal between Aldersley and Oxley.

Coltsfoot by canal