Mastodawn

- Garden aubrieta (Purple Rock-cress), several puddles of these, by the pavement, on my daily loop.
- Springstar (Ipheion uniflorum), I think.
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Richard Lewis 2d ago

- Bulrushes (Typha), were filling the new estate drainage ponds with fluff, last week.
- Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), male, in his element. Apparently common, but I'd never spotted one before. Thought it a coal tit, by eye.
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Richard Lewis 3d ago

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Tulips!! I couldn't find an accessible cluster last year, on only short walks. Thankfully, biking to 'dahlia alley' lined me up with a sunny shot, this Thursday. Accidental SLR over-exposure came out all arty.

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Richard Lewis 4d ago

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Camellias have just been in peek bloom around here!
- Next door-but-one's bushes, either side of their back garden. Telephoto shot from an upstairs window.
- Below, two more blooms, of different varieties, out on my bike...
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Richard Lewis 5d ago

House sparrows, again very common, but I had to bike out to find any.

They apparently love the large mechanically hacked hedge between estates; it has so often been filled with mysterious bird song when I pass.

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Richard Lewis 6d ago

Glory-of-the-snow (Scilla forbesii (Baker) Speta) - smatterings of these shy delicate flowers, hiding in the shade and gravelly bits, around neighbourhood. Didn't spot any last year.

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Richard Lewis Mar 17

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Red Kite (Milvus milvus)!
- I dashed inside for SLR when I saw this one slowly floating in over the house.
- Weeks before, almost home, on bike out looking for one; dived our feeder.
- Common Buzzard, another day.
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Richard Lewis Mar 15

Happy Mother's Day (UK & Ireland)!
- Greek/Balkan Anemone, I wasn't back out on my neighbourhood walks quite early enough to catch, last year. Many around hedge boarders.
- Nonesuch daffodil.
- Lungwort, & another bee focus issue.
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Richard Lewis Mar 13

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Starlings, common, but never in our garden:
- Moon! 2 exposures combined with Gemini. Pleased with my patience, waiting under this branch, on my bike, for 10 minutes.
- Hullo! Yellow beak for mating season?
- Our estate, later.
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Richard Lewis Mar 6

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Back garden in late February's perpetual rain (SLR telephoto shots):
- Cherry plum (myrobalan) blossoms popping.
- Hyacinthus, planted out.
- Weeping daffodils (Narcissus cyclamineus)
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