Magpie high in one of the trees by West Park boating lake, looking about attentively.
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Leaves: wild garlic
The leaves of many wild garlic (ramson) plants cover the ground under trees, catching all the sunlight they can before the tree leaves intercept the source of energy.
Little egret in a reed bed by the Ryver Clyst on the Goosemoor RSPB Reserve.
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Alexanders flowers with small insect
Alexanders flowers were all along the narrow verges of a minor road by the Exe estuary recently, with one or more of these small insects on every plant.
Insect is a yellow dung fly. Identification, thanks @Ecorecording
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Shoreline pied wagtails, Topsham
Two pied wagtails with territories a few hundred yards apart along the shoreline or riverbank of the tidal Exe at Topsham.
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Dog’s mercury flowering, Coppice Wood
The inconspicuous flowers of dog’s mercury. Another plant of the woodland floor which gets its main tasks for they year done before the trees grow their leaves and put the ground into shade. Dog’s mercury can be found growing in Wolverhampton city boundaries in the small remnants of ancient woodland such as by Berry Brook at Northycote Farm, or like this specimen in Coppice Wood.