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Female pheasant, West Park

Female pheasant, West Park

Female pheasant lurking by the side of the West Park Conservatory. Probably after fallen fruit from the strawberry tree of the previous post.

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Strawberry tree fruit, West Park

Strawberry  tree fruit, West Park

Fruits hanging from a strawberry tree by the Conservatory at West Park, ripe so that some were beginning to drop to the ground. They really do look like strawberries.

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Pregnant (?) squirrel, West Park

Pregnant (?) squirrel, West Park

Another West Park squirrel, seen a few minutes after the one featured in yesterday’s post. This one appeared to be heavily pregnant.

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Birch boletes, Bantock

Birch boletes, Bantock

A small cluster of brown birch boloetes growing closes together, along with one which some one had pulled up then left. Growing by birch trees in Bantock Park.

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Stand up to beg

Stand up to beg

Female squirrel, West Park, standing up to beg for peanuts. Possibly with added urgency because there was a litter of newborns back in the dray.

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Wrinkled Crust

Wrinkled Crust

Wrinkled crust, a fungus where the fruiting bodies are visible as patches on the trunks of trees. These were on a felled log in Bantock Park,