Cuckoo Pint - Arum maculatum

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Broad Buckler Fern - Dryopteris dilatata



Annual meadow grass - Poa annua













Wood Sorrell - Oxalis acetosella









Shepherd's Purse - Capsella bursa-pastoris







Common Field Speedwell - Veronica persicv









Cuckoo Flower - Cardemine pratensis




Tulip Tree - Liriodendron tulipifera





Greater Pond Sedge - Carex riparia







Chickweed - Stellaria media

and

Two
Swallows

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Beech - Fagus sylvatica



Sweet Chestnut - Castanea sativa












Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis





Purple Dead Nettle - Lamium purpureum







Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna








Moss Spp? Capsules

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Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus



Long Tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates


Both pottering about in the Alders down by the lake. Off the Siskins no sight or sound.

But a distinct flash of azure flashed past
and spent a moment
bashing its prey's head
on a log.


While the rasp of an Egyptian goose played in the background.

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A party of Siskins (Spinus spinus) twittering away this morning in the Alders

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