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Wildflower Meadow, Bantock Park

Wildflower Meadow, Bantock Park

A bright patch of colurs harmonising together. The yellow of corn marigolds, red from poppies, cornflower blue and green of the leaves (of wormwood too in one of the pictures). All were growing together in the wldflower meadow of Bantock Park.

The flowers formed islands of colour in the sandier soil which had previously been bunkers on the Pitch and Putt course, among the more subdued tones of the many species of ripening grasses in the rest of the meadow.

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Comma butterfly

Wild Wolverhampton - comma butterfly

A comma butterfly spreading its wings as it fed by the canal at Castlecroft. The comma which gives the species its name is just about visible on the underwing in the last picture.

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Growing on a granite wall

Growing on a granite wall

Plants, including a mousetail and a fern, managing to cling on and grow on the bare granite of a wall in St Ives (the Cornish one).

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Gathering for a summer murmuration

Gathering for a summer murmeration

Starlings gathering on the roofs of Topsham by the Exe estuary at sunset. Every so often a group of them would take off and form a mini-murmuration. Later they headed off to spend the night on the nearby reed beds.

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Rabbits having a morning snack

Rabbits having a morning snack

Three or four rabbits in a field, snacking on grass in the morning sunlight.

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Spider nursery

Spider nursery

Web of a nursery web spider. I didn’t get close enough to see if the infant spiders were still in the protective web.

Spider nursery