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#lockdown – female sparrow again

#lockdown - female sparrow again

More pictures of a female sparrow seen on a fat ball feeder and standing on a fence, both sites yards from the tree where her nest is.

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#lockdown Greylags with recent goslings

Greylags with recent goslings

Pair of greylag geese on the West Park boating lake at the end of last week.

Very young goslings can just be seen, half-hidden by one of the adults. There were at least three of them.

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#lockdown – pieris, new leaves

#lockdown - pieris, new leaves

Pieris bush, West Park. New leaves pale, pinkish. As they mature, the colour will shift towards that of the mmture ones lower down the branches.

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#lockdown Canada goose courtship

#lockdown Canada goose courtship

Pair of Canada geese on teh West Park boating lake a few days ago, not engaging in the same careful social distancing I was.

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#lockdown Flowers, white dead nettle

Flowers, white dead nettle

White dead nettle flowering – it isn’t a nettle, and doesn’t sting.

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#lockdown sticky willy

#lockdown sticky willy

Sticky willy, also known as bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickweed, sticky bob, stickybud, stickyback, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, grip grass, sticky grass, bobby buttons, and velcro plant (according to Wikipedia). A common wild plant at the bottom of hedgerows, and a garden weed.