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Hare’s foot

Hare's foot

Hare’s foot inkcaps, pale, growing among the leaf litter in the wooded area around the Old Nursery.

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Plants: flowers and fruits

Yellow Loosestrife Lysimachia vulgari

Another disparate set of pictures of plants seen on my daily exercise, the season now advanced so fruits are on some, flowers on others.

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Up from the depths

Up from the depths

Up from the depths, some of the big carp in the lake at West Park showing themselves near the surface again a while ago.

Up from the depths

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Small skipper, ragwort

Small skipper, ragwort

Small skipper butteflies feeding on a patch of ragwort flowers

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Nursery web spider close-ups

European Nursery Web Spider Pisaura mirabilis

A nursery web spider on a leaf, from the size probably a female. I am now on the look-out for webs enclosing a hundred or so pin-head sized baby spiders.

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Old Nursery Pond: two water lily species

White water lilies, Old Nursery Pond

White water lilies and fringed water lilies (with yellow flowers) both flowering on Old Nursery Pond. Don’t recall ever seeing the fringed water lilies before. From the shore, the flowers look very like those of member of the buttercup family