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