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Northern willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum), also known as fringed willowherb, is a dainty perennial relative of fireweed and is often found growing in the same habitats. The four deeply-notched petals with dark venation sometimes give the impression of eight petals. Willowherbs are pioneer plants and some species are considered to be weedy, but northern willowherb is actually quite attractive.
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Native Plants I’ve Actually Seen Growing Wild in Southern Ontario
Acer saccharinum (silver maple) --along the sides of highways
Acer saccharum (sugar maple) --GTA ravines
Achillea millefolia (yarrow) --GTA ravines
Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives) --GTA ravines, Ridgetown
Allium tricoccum (ramps) --Niagara region escarpments
Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot amaranth) --fallow areas in the GTA
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (ragweed) --fallow areas in the GTA
Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed) --parks in the GTA
Amelanchier spp. (saskatoon/serviceberry) --GTA ravines
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit) --GTA ravines
Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) --ravines and parks in the GTA
Asarum canadense (Canada ginger) --GTA ravines
Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) --fallow areas, ravines, and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort) --Niagara region escarpments
Betula spp. (birch) --ravines and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Bidens spp. (beggar ticks) --GTA ravines
Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) --GTA parks
Ceratophyllum demersum (hornwort) --GTA ravines (native in freshwater across the globe anyway)
Circaea lutetiana (enchanter’s nightshade) --fallow areas in the GTA
Commelina spp. (dayflower) --fallow areas in Windsor
Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda dogwood) --GTA wooded areas
Cornus sericea (red osier dogwood) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks
Crataegus spp. (hawthorn) --GTA ravines and parks
Echinocystis lobata (wild prickly cucumber) --GTA ravines
Elaeagnus commutata (silverberry) --GTA parks and fallow areas
Epilobium ciliatum (fringed willowherb) --fallow areas in the GTA
Equisetum spp. (horsetail/scouring rush) --GTA ravines and fallow areas
Erigeron spp. (fleabane) --GTA parks and fallow areas, Ridgetown
Erythronium americanum (trout lily) --GTA ravines and parks
Eutrochium maculatum (Joe-Pye weed) --GTA parks
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry) --fallow areas in the GTA
Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) --Windsor green spaces
Geranium robertianum (herb robert) --Windsor green spaces
Geum aleppicum (yellow avens) --GTA fallow areas
Geum canadense (white avens) --GTA fallow areas
Geum macrophyllum (large-leaved avens) --GTA fallow areas
Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffee tree) --GTA ravines
Helianthus spp. (sunflower) --GTA fallow areas and parks
Heracleum maximum (cow parsnip) --GTA ravines
Hordeum jubatum (foxtail barley) --GTA fallow areas
Humulus lupulus (hops) --GTA ravines
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf) --GTA ravines
Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks
Juglans nigra (black walnut) --GTA ravines
Lactuca canadensis (Canadian lettuce) --GTA fallow areas
Lilium michiganense (Michigan lily) --GTA ravines
Lupinus perennis (sundial lupine) --GTA parks
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower) --GTA ravines
Maianthemum racemosum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines and parks
Maianthemum stellatum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines
Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern) --GTA ravines
Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) --GTA ravines and parks
Morus rubra (red mulberry) --fallow areas in Windsor, GTA parks
Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not) --GTA fallow areas
Oenothera biennis (evening primrose) --GTA fallow areas
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) --GTA ravines
Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Parietaria pensylvanica (Pennsylvania pellitory) --GTA fallow areas
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) --Windsor fallow areas and GTA ravines and parks
Persicaria lapathifolia (curlytop smartweed) --GTA fallow areas
Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) --GTA ravines and parks
Portulaca oleracea (purslane) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA (native globally anyway)
Potentilla norvejica monspeliensis (ternate-leaved cinquefoil) --GTA fallow areas
Prunella vulgaris (selfheal) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Prunus virginiana (chokecherry) --Windsor fallow areas, GTA ravines and parks, Niagara region escarpments
Pteridium aquilinum latiusculum (western bracken fern) --GTA parks
Quercus spp. (oak) --wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to Collingwood
Ribes spp. (currants) --GTA ravines and parks
Ribes spp. (gooseberries) --GTA ravines
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) --GTA ravines and parks
Rosa spp. (roses) --GTA ravines, parks, and fallow areas
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry) --ravines, parks, and fallow areas in Hamilton and GTA
Rubus odoratus (purple-flowered raspberry) --GTA ravines and parks
Rubus strigosus (American red raspberry) --GTA parks
Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan) --GTA parks
Salix spp. (willow) --GTA ravines
Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry) --Windsor riverside parks, GTA ravines
Sambucus racemosa (red elderberry) --GTA ravines and parks
Smilax spp. (greenbrier) --GTA parks
Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Sorbus spp. (mountain ash) --GTA ravines and parks
Streptopus spp. (twistedstalk) --GTA parks
Symphoricarpos spp. (snowberry) --GTA parks
Symphyotrichum ericoides (heath aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) --GTA parks
Tilia spp. (linden) --GTA ravines
Trillium grandiflorum (white trillium) --parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) --GTA parks
Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail) --marshes in Essex county and GTA
Urtica gracilis (slender nettle) --GTA ravines
Uvularia spp. (bellwort) --streams in Windsor green spaces
Verbena hastata (blue vervain) --GTA ravines
Viburnum lentago (nannyberry) --GTA parks and Ridgetown ravine
Viburnum trilobum (highbush cranberry) --Ridgetown
Viola sororia (wood violet) --fallow areas and wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA
Vitis riparia (riverbank grape) --GTA fallow areas, ravines, and parks
Waldsteinia fragarioides (barren strawberry) --GTA ravines and parks
Xanthium strumarium canadense (Canada cocklebur) --GTA parks and fallow areas
I’ve likely seen many others and just couldn’t identify them, but there are a lot I’ve never seen growing wild. What I’m hoping is that some of the native species I have in my garden will make their way to the nearby ravine. If I get around to it, though, I might just take a walk with some Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) seeds in the fall. They certainly seem to successfully germinate in my garden whether I want them to or not (don’t have space for them to go crazy). Can’t see why they wouldn’t in a natural swamp area.
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Epilobium ciliatum, known by the common names fringed willowherb, American willowherb, slender willow herb, and northern willow herb. Кипре́й желе́зистостебе́льный рода Кипрей.
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Onagraceae
Genus:Epilobium
Epilobium ciliatum is native to the southern part of Canada and most of the United States of America. It arrived in northern Europe early in the 20th century and spread rapidly, reaching Finland in about 1920.в России впервые обнаружен в 1895 году в Псковской области.
Плод — стручковидная коробочка 6—8 см длиной, густо покрытая простыми и железистыми волосками.
epilobium: From the Greek epi- ‘upon’ and lobos ‘a pod’, the flowers appearing to be growing on the seed pod.
The main use of Epilobium by humans is as a herbal supplement in the treatment of prostate, bladder (incontinence) and hormone disorders.
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10/10/2022-Lakeside and home
On what was a very pleasant sunny day, with bright blue sky which I really made the most of and enjoyed it’s just so easy to move through and feel energy on a sunny day and taking photos was easy the camera clicked so well, it was a day for dragonflies at Lakeside on my lunch time walk. It’s a key part of autumn too seeing the boisterous and colourful insects. I loved seeing Common Darters including some joined together over Concorde lake possibly mating and I believe both Migrant Hawker and Southern Hawker including possibly one of each battling with one another at one point. One of the pair was a stunning Southern Hawker which I firstly saw land in a tree and then lower down in vegetation, I got the tenth and final picture in this photoset of it. It was beautiful to see this bright coloured creature shine in the glorious sunlight. A powerful moment connecting to it on my escape at lunch time today and I was buzzing to be able to get a photo. I saw a hawker by houses when walking back north of Lakeside too.
I really made the most of autumnal colour of red and yellow as well as the green in the landscape still going well and delicious blue water at Lakeside and also at home today it was such excellent conditions to be out in. There was an autumnal wind today. I enjoyed seeing a rainbow very early morning whilst there was still a bit of cloud about this was great to look up from out the window and see and I am enjoying a still massive looking moon after last night’s full Hunter’s moon as I write this. I took the first picture in this photoset of a sunny view at Lakeside and second from home with the sixth, eighth and ninth pictures in this photoset taken today too the ninth a nice scene with bare branches, red leaves of dogwood I believe a key sight at Lakeside and some green leaves of a tree all packed in nicely together a treat for the eyes.
In this area a flock of Long-tailed Tits flitted around and I got some marvelous views of these beautiful and charismatic birds and one I have had a brilliant year for seeing. I saw a Chiffchaff again nicely mixed in with them. Coot, Moorhen as shown in the seventh picture in this photoset, Black-headed Gulls, Mallard as the fourth picture in this photoset shows with the males’ head glowing a permanent marker blue and a gaggle of Greylags Geese being kissed by the sunlight on the grass at the shore of beach lake. I took the third picture in this photoset of one of these lovely birds too and it was nice to see others including someone I spoke to here a few weeks ago enjoying them. Seeing a Ring-necked Parakeet again early on this morning and a sweet group of Jackdaws in the air were from home bird highlights today. It was lovely to see another bat tonight at dusk flying around out the front, I love seeing them.
There were some lovely flowers to enjoy on my lunch time walk, I made the most of great willowherb taking perhaps one last shot of one this year one of the ones hanging on still on the fringes of the path between the fenced off areas I took the fifth picture in this photoset of it, I have liked seeing these so much this summer such a beautiful flower its been nice to see them from June until now. I also enjoyed some of the great bits of yarrow on the green out the front in the stunning sunlight, ragwort, dandelion, daisy, broad-leaved clover, white clover and some purple toadflax I found in a flower bed type area a bit further up as I came out of Lakeside a pretty one to see. Rose hips, firethorn, steeplebush, buddleia and other plants I enjoyed were good plants to take in at home today.
Wildlife Sightings Summary: One of my favourite dragonflies the Southern Hawker, Migrant Hawker I believe too, Common Darter, Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, I seem to recall seeing Goldfinch and Starling on a relatively quiet day for birds in the garden/on the balcony I certainly heard the latter, Collared Dove, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Jackdaw, Ring-necked Parakeet, Black-headed Gull, Greylag Goose, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, bat and a lovely Silver-sided sector spider the other side of the window one I like seeing. It was nice to see the cows at Lakeside again too.
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walking through nature Epilobium ciliatum Epilobium ciliatum, known by the common names fringed willowherb, American willowherb, slender willow herb, and northern willow herb is a species of flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. This species is native to much of North America, southern South America, and East Asia. It is an introduced species in much of Eurasia and Australia.
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God, I’m so looking forward to planting season. It just does something to me. Motivates me like nothing else. And rewarding, too. I get snacks out of it, because everything I grow has at least one known edible use, and some of them happen to be edible raw! I love chewing on the leaves of my alliums and willowherb, popping a violet or columbine flower into my mouth, the freshness of young mint leaves.
Everyone who visits my garden gets to have some. Sometimes I bring some into work for my bestie, and the time my other bestie came to visit she was like “you keep feeding me” as I was showing her around the garden. My aunt also relayed a similar experience to my grandparents. I like to share the fruits of my labour, what can I say?
But what I’m really looking forward to is my spring pasta sauce. This involves a mass weeding of sow thistle, prickly lettuce, dandelions (I’m happy to have them in the lawn but they can be a bit much in the beds), daylilies (common garden plant, but not native fairly invasive and therefore not welcome in my garden), and garlic mustard. Plus the tips and tops and shoots and young leaves of various garden plants, including white prairie sagewort, golden alexanders, slender nettle, bride’s feathers, Canada garlic, starry onion, nodding onion, ramps, yarrow, wild chives, harebell, ostrich fern, lady fern, Christmas fern, berry bladder fern, sensitive fern, male fern, Canada goldenrod, Virginia bluebells, common tall sunflower, stiff sunflower, swamp milkweed, Virginia creeper, riverbank grape, Virginia mountain mint, fringed blue aster, smooth aster, trout lily, wild basil, and whatever else I decide is ready to add.
I put them in a tomato sauce, add some chopped garlic, basil, oregano, and cayenne pepper, and any pasta of my choice. It is not a delicate flavour at all. Not painfully so, but definitely elicits a “whoa” every spring.
This year I also want to experiment: while garlic mustard and sow thistles are certainly tasty weeds, there are other prolific weeds in my garden that are not so inviting. One of them is a milkweed relative, dog-strangling vine, and it, like milkweeds, is poisonous. Unlike milkweeds, it is not considered edible. Milkweed poison is fairly easily removed by cooking or at most by boiling in a change of water. I suspect dog-strangling vine may be similar to the more potent milkweeds and I intend to put that theory to the test. I will first try boiling it in three changes of water, as this is considered enough for various otherwise poisonous plants, and chewing just a little for a minute and spitting it out. If that has no adverse reaction, I will try consuming a small bit. If that has no reaction I will try a little more, and keep going until I get a mild reaction or don’t. If I conclude that young shoots of dog-strangling vine are edible after boiling in three changes of water, I’ll work my way down. Once I’ve determined what’s safe, that will decide whether they join the spring pasta sauce.
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Country Diary: A haven of splendor and quietness
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Country Diary: A haven of splendor and quietness
Hello again! Remember Little and Large, our Vapourer Moth caterpillars? They’re now playing existence, fortunately munching hawthorn hedging, to finish their metamorphosis in the natural environment. How hastily this year has advanced. The thrilling fervor of early summer season days has abated and we experience a distinct hush inside the chicken international. By St Swithin’s Day, July 15, harvest time had already all started, and cornfields spread a haze of golden beauty under clean blue skies. Large white trumpets of Convolvulus or bindweed embellish hedgerows. Their snowy white plants seem almost luminous in sure lighting fixtures. The plant climbs via entwining stems which coil in anti-clockwise route. Whilst traveling Michael’s brothers John and Graham, they advised us of a pure white albino blackbird seen up Ganton Hill. Blackbirds are very susceptible to albinism. Individuals often have vast numbers of white feathers. On such dark birds, these feathers are very obvious. Many years in the past, we noticed one that had a white crescent around its breast akin to the plumage of a hoop ouzel. An awesome croaking near a ‘well’ in our lawn prompted a look for the Frog, however no good fortune. Concerned there have been so only a few frogs or toads this year, we visited Seamer Road more. Between Midsummer day and Lammas (August 1) is the flowering season of water-side plant life. We made our manner to a pool we knew – ideal for frogs and newts. It changed into very overgrown, and beside the platform turned into a notice: DANGER – DEEP WATER! Parting undergrowth, I located one, minute froglet which quick hopped to safety. The pool turned into fringed by a tangle of flora – the remarkable willowherb, softly downy, and with a perfume said to resemble codlins (cooking apples), which earned it the name codlins and cream! Masses of meadowsweet have been beginning to fade, at the side of hedge woundwort, but the spotlight was a small colony of purple loosestrife, towering in opposition with tall stinging nettles. The mere become a haven of beauty and tranquillity – a wasteland for wildlife. Yellow and red water lilies embellished the calm waters, and colonies of glaring yellow ragwort colonized the barren region.
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14/06/2021: Part 2 of 2-The wildlife photos and experiences at Lakeside and home
On a scorching day I enjoyed a lot around the home before I went for my Lakeside walk, including the lovely rose on a bush in the back garden seen from my bedroom window which looked nice I took the first picture in this photoset of this. I was then thrilled in another productive photo session in the front garden to see some poor man’s weather-glass aka scarlet pimpernal (the latter probably the most common name for it, but I found it using the PlantNet app when I was first getting into flowers last year as the former when I first got into flowers in the late summer a time I look back on fondly seeing this on the green out the front and then at Cley and Salthouse Marshes in Norfolk). This was a flower I really loved learning last year one I find so addictive, sweet, small and colourful to see so I was thrilled to see this looking so nice. I took the second picture in this photoset of these. Alongside speedwell, daisy and some willowherb a nice tiny contingent of flowers making it to our stony front garden lately which is great these did look scrumptious and bright red in the sun. The cuckoo spit on the lavender flowers was still present after I noticed it on Friday and I couldn’t resist a macro photo of it gleaming in the sun the third in this photoset.
After taking in stunning views and noticing a lovely bright purple mallow on the grass by Lakeside which I tweeted a picture of tonight on Dans_Pictures another flower I loved learning last summer I reached Lakeside and was thrilled to spot a Swift gliding effortlessly through the bright blue sky on arrival. Low enough with my big lens on at this point to try for a photo not the easiest one to photograph they are of course so fast, but I just about managed a couple including the fourth picture in this photoset of this.
I reached beach lake the westernmost one and set about looking for one of my targets the Black-tailed Skimmer a lovely dragonfly that my Mum had seen here yesterday and I had for the first time of the year in 2020 on the 1st June that year. No sooner had I started taking in the wonderful views over this lake especially which I mentioned in my previous post about today than one of these excellently marked and bright coloured dragonflies danced over the grass in front of me leading me to a little reedbed area at the base of the lake where I confirmed it was this favourite dragonfly species of mine. I loved looking at it and taking it in for a little while being so in aw of it. I took the fifth picture in this photoset of it. This sparked a memorable and packed few minutes when as I caught a sight of some Mallards with ducklings in the northern edge of beach lake I saw in my binoculars with them was a beautiful burgundy Little Grebe. This was fantastic to see, I obviously see Great Crested Grebes so well here so often but this was only the second time I’d ever seen its smaller cousin here after last November. It was completely unexpected today and another amazing bird moment lately I loved watching it for a little while. Walking north of the lake a bit I couldn’t quite get a clear shot closer through the reeds and trees but I did see some nice heath spotted-orchid along the fringes of the path and I loved seeing these and yellow iris mixing together well and dominated the edges of the lakes which made for stunning views which I captured and tweeted photos of both star flowers recently. I did manage the sixth picture in this photoset of the Little Grebe with my big lens on for this and the dragonfly. Noticeable behind the grebe was a damselfly or it may have been a dragonfly
I then took some landscape photos and put my normal lens on. The lens I discovered the Saturday before last is a great option for dragonfly pictures with one of a Broad-bodied Chaser I was quite pleased with. I couldn’t have written it better then when the only seen fairly fair away in reeds and zipping past before during my lunch time walk today Black-tailed Skimmer or a Black-tailed Skimmer settled right next to me well within range for my 70-300mm lens I lapped up chances for photos of this tweeting the photo I took forward from this set. It was a utopian late spring/early summer afternoon as I watched the skimmer one of my favourite dragonflies three of them I believe which I didn’t really realise was at Lakeside having seen them at other locations before working from home patrol the bright blue lake.
I liked seeing damselflies around this lake and Swifts fly over and skim the lake here too. I also liked seeing the baby birds again; Canada Goose and goslings like the one in the seventh picture in this photoset, Coot chick like the one in the eighth picture in this photoset and Greylag goslings along with the ducklings. It was nice to enjoy all of this again. In the searing hear I went towards Concorde Lake through a very well grown up path here and almost brushed up against a lovely Banded Demoiselle here and I also spotted a bright Red Admiral flying around the vegetation which I was very pleased to see so well one of my favourite butterflies.
Going home past the visitor centre and looking over the southern fenced off nature reserve area where I hoped to see Meadow Browns and other insects on this route the Meadow Brown my Mum also saw at Lakeside yesterday on this stretch. Walking along here I was captivated by a great light coloured dragonfly prominently flying around. I watched it landed for ages trying to get a picture from the other side of the fence with my big lens I didn’t succeed. I worked out it was a female Common Darter thought another star of Lakeside last year which I found brilliant to see. It was my earliest ever sighting of a Common Darter in a year how many times did I say that about butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies including here a lot last year in the early progressing spring this year slower so it was nice to, to really show how in hot weather in June anything can happen. My previous earliest was 18th June at Bolderwood in the New Forest in 2017 for me.
What made the special Common Darter fly off was a butterfly flying into it and that was my target the Meadow Brown! I enjoyed a fantastic time watching this bright and warm looking butterfly on an oxeye daisy which I took the ninth picture in this photoset of. I was so happy I’d seen it, one of my next targets and my 25th butterfly species this year a figure I am thrilled with. But the Meadow Brown is often one of my most important butterfly sightings in a year as so often as it was this year (its only usually the Large Skipper that is the other one) its the first of the summer butterflies I see in a year. With the weather like this and now two key sights I see as summer rather than spring and signpost when the season transitions for me, this and foxglvoes on road verges on Saturday it feels very summery! I saw another Meadow Brown on the way out and enjoyed the meadows carpeted in bright oxeye daisies which I just loved seeing and taking in such beautiful scenes. I enjoyed at the flower patch in the estate on the way back the glorious poppies again one looking enormous and I took a photo I was happy with of that. There was something I found out in our personal life today which was something very sad about an important person in my life, but I felt at lunch time I did what I do best and let nature uplift me which was much needed being able to see these targets locally and it felt great to sneak them in before our holiday next week.
I did take a second Lakeside walk this evening with other things on including a day off an an organised walk we are going on tomorrow happening and preparation for holiday as the week goes on this the last evening walk with a camera and binoculars I’ll do before going on holiday. I loved taking in some beautiful scenes in the meadows of Lakeside to the east the area that would be my commute when working in the office, especially with the grass looking very long and some nice sky scenes formed at this time too. A lovely Kestrel flew over which I got a great view of near the kissing gate entrance where the Swift had darted over at lunch time. This evening it was great to enjoy Woodpigeon and Collared Dove on the roof visible from my room in the lowering sunlight, moth in the house again and a Lesser Black-backed Gull out the front which I took the tenth and final picture in this photoset of. I hope you have all had a nice day.
Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Meadow Brown, Black-tailed Skimmer and Common Darter of the year, one of my favourite butterflies the Red Admiral, Common Blue Damselfly, Banded Demoiselle, Lesser Black-backed Gull at Lakeside and home, Black-headed Gull, Mallard, Coot, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Little Grebe, Swift, Kestrel, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw including some on the green out the front where the Starlings and gulls have been spending a lot of times in the evenings lately adding to this well, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Starling, some lovely Long-tailed Tits at Lakeisde a great view, House Sparrow and Goldfinch.
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