Female blackbird in a tree, eating some of the tiny crab apples growing there, apparently preferring those which were already rotten.
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Lichen-encrusted bark, West Park
Tree trunk, the bark encrusted with lichen, by the boating lake at West Park.
Positively the last of the pictures from the Stratford Butterfly Farm. The glass wing butterfly, one of the smaller species, with wings which did seem to line up to their name.
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Standing on water: gulls, West Park
The end of the cold spell in mid-December. The melting ice on West Park lake left areas still solid just under the surface.
Some of the mixed flock of black-headed gulls and lesser black backed gulls standing in this area looked like they were standing up on the surface of the water.
One common gull was there too – can you spot it in the first picture?
I took a lot of pictures of the butterflies at the Stratford Butterfly Farm on my recent visit. Here the last big batch.
The adult ring-necked parakeet resting, still in the middle of dense vegetation at the Stratford Butterfly Farm, after feeding a young bird.