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Tiny moorhen chick, recently emerged

Tiny moorhen chick, recently emerged

Tiny moorhen chick seen on the canal near the Wildside Centre yesterday. Probably emerged from its egg that same morning.

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Cornflowers, wildflower meadow, Bantock Park

Cornflower, wildflower meadow, Bantock Park

Cornflowers growing in the wildflower meadow of Bantock Park recently.

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Beautiful demoiselles, possibly immature males

Beautiful demoiselle, possibly immature male

Beautiful demoiselles damselflies at rest on vegetation over a small stream. Some pictures are probably immature males, others perhaps female.

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Small black beetles on poppy, Bantock Park

Small black beetles on poppy, Bantock Park

A poppy flower in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, once again proving attractive to several insects at once. This time, tiny black beetles.

Small black beetles on poppy, Bantock Park

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Bladderwrack, tide out

Bladderwrack, tide out

Bladderwrack seaweed witout its covering of water when the tide had receded. On the rocks next to the causeway to St Michael’s Mount it was competing with other seaweeds. On the stones of St Ives harbour it formed what looked from the distance like one continuous carpet.

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Tiny hoverflies on poppy, Bantock Park

Tiny hoverflies on poppy, Bantock Park

Poppy growing in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, with several of a tiny species of hoverfly visiting at the same time.