Big Canada goose family (10 goslings!) near the boating lake at West Park.
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Large red damselflies, male
Two males, large red damselflies resting on vegetation in a garden. As far as I know, the only open water nearby is bird baths. but damselflies of various species resting on leaves have been a regular feature this summer.
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Ducklings, Bag’s Pool, Baggeridge
Ducklings on Bag’s Pool at Baggeridge Country Park.
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Briar rose, swollen-thighed beetles
Briar rose flowers with a bright greenswollen-thighed beetles busy eating pollen. Bonus picture is of a bumblebee on another flower of one of the bushes.
Female broad-bodied chaser dragonfly placing her eggs (ovipositing) in the water of a small pool in Baggeridge Country Park. She had mated with a male while I was getting my camera out. Now she was hovering over the water, dipping the rear of her abdomen under the surface again and again.
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Spotted orchids, Baggeridge
Spotted orchids flowering in Baggeridge Country Park early last month. They were in an area where there are many of this species, of southern marsh orchids, and of crosses between the two types. These were the most accessible of the first few to flower.