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Michaelmas daisies, bee visiting

Michaelmas daisies, bee visiting

The same michaelmas daisies as in the previous post, attracting a bee on a sunny autumn afternoon.

Michaelmas daisies, bee visiting

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Autumn flowers: michaelmas daisies

Michaelmas daisies

Purple and yellow of michaelmas daisies, brightening up gardens when most other plants have long finished their flowering seasons.

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Verdigris mushrooms, cap dappled

Verdigris mushroom, cap dappled

Verdigris mushrooms, when they first emerge, the colour on the cap is stronger and continous over the entire cap. Usually fades to something like this after they have been out some time. Only a short while needed if there is heavy rain. I don’t remember ever before seeing ones where the surface of the cap has fragmented, leaving the cap dappled with colour.

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Coming in to land, greylag geese, West Park

Coming in to land, greylag geese, West Park

What may be the entirety of the flock of greylag geese at West Park, some seventeen or eighteen birds flying overhead before they disappeared descending over the island to land on the lake.

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Poplar fieldcaps on a tree trunk

Poplar fieldcaps on a tree trunk

Poplar fieldcap mushrooms growing on a tree trunk, possibly a willow rather than a poplar (the fungus grows on either).

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Going, gone: cone flower petals

Going, gone: cone flower petals

Cone flower with the last two petals hanging on; another nearby with only the central cone remaining.

Going, gone: cone flower petals