Once again the sparrows which are monopolising the birdfeeders. Once again they are spending most of their time on the fat balls. Just occasionally varying the diet, having a few sunflower hearts.
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Parrot waxcaps, short grass
Another of the yellowish waxcap species growing in close proximity in short grass. The largest of these yellow waxcaps still kept some of the original green when these pcitures were taken. The others were turning the yellow which results when rain washes some of the pigments away.
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What’s the point of interest?
Two herons once again on the West Park boating lake island. The one further from the shore resolutely staring in a direction where it couldn’t see the other. That one twisting its neck. Looking in the same direction as the other, looking at the other, and looking in the opposite direction to the other.
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Butter waxcaps
It’s been a good year for fungi, and for waxcaps in particular. These butter waxcaps were one of three different yellowish waxcaps in the same area of roadside lawn.
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Rainbow – ascending curve
Rainbow, one recent early morning. For reasons I can’t now remember, the pictures are all of the left arc of the curve.
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Female pheasant, at West Park still
Female pheasant spotted near the West Park Conservatory in mid-October. It was still in the same general area a month later.