#mecfsegress — Public Fediverse posts

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On first sight, I thought Mum had bought some new ornament! A baby pigeon had dropped out of our ghost willow tree, a little early. Just sat waiting as I walked right up on it...

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Feels like butterfly season here, with some red admirals for a start!

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Sorry for the lack of pics, I've been a busy bee. Let's continue the theme of them on white flowers...

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Bumble #Bees on a Deutzia bush in late May. Oops, repost for hashtags...
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Three #bee species, one roadside plant. Kicking off a series of white flowers with fluffy pollinators on!
- Common Carder Bee(?) on Hogweed (as alluded to yesterday)...
- Bumble bee.
- Western Honey Bee
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Three more new/unique #UKbird sightings for my collection:
- Common buzzard, over that one farm field I visit.
- Sparrowhawk, high over our house. I think this is the grey blur I've glimpsed bombing through our garden!
- Segue to below...
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A big old Rook landed atop the bird feeder, meters from me! For scale, robins are shorter than those metal leaves.

Very slick, beady eye, crusty beak that I'm told is covered with feathers for their first year..?
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Saturday #Caturday - this dainty little thing brought me to a halt, as it strolled up and posed like it was part of a fashion shoot, in wild area between farm and country estate.
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Jay! First of a series of less common birds I've snapped for the first time, recently.

They're very shy and wily, with striking eyes (next tweet) and markings that look like a 3 year old applied makeup to them in a hurry.
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Beautifully wet blooms (Pt2)!:
- Rose campion (Silene coronaria), I've been hunting for a good shot, this year.
- Love in-a-mist (Nigella damascena), new to me, very exotic..!
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Beautifully wet blooms (Pt1)! Appropriate for an evening where I thought I'd have to come in due to heat, but then got rained off instead...
- Indian blanket flower (Gaillardia) amongst pale-eyed grass.
- Day-lilies, drenched.
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Pinky-red week (day 5), challenging my SLR's sensor:
- Tropical Rhododendron (red)
- Rhododendron ponticum L. (pink), bonus bee, below...
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Common garden peony, for pinky-red week (day 4).
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- Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus L.) epitomising pinky-red week (day 3).
- Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea L.), right next to it. And...

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Valerian! For pinky-red flowers week, day 2. A healthy crop on the entrance to residential garages. One of...

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Purple flowers week continues, contrasting:
- Paper Bellflower's big plain smooth texture, vs...
- Speedwell's chaotic detail.
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Yellow Weekend (Pt5) transitions into purple week:
- Pale yellow-eyed-grass, just bloomed in the heat!
- Perfect marzipan peel rose reprise.
- Sedum (flowering succulent), bed...
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Yellow weekend (Pt3): roses fully in bloom, after light rain.

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Caption these "Sudden Clarity Clarence" (meme) birds!:
- Blue tit... Amazed by fat balls.
- Coal tit... Realising they drink their own bath water!
- Dunnock... Stunned I'm going to 'tweet' this despite a total lack of puns.
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On #MEawarenessDay I bring you pale blue flowers:
- Linseed
- Myriad of them...
- On the edge of society.
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Tulip varieties I'd never seen before...
- Deliciously detailed soft pink texture demands FULL SCREEN!
- Fascinatingly feathered petal edges.
- And more..
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Syringa vulgaris (aka Common lilac), happy to catch a huge bush in bloom, out in the sun, making the colourful backdrop too.

Extended landscape crop, below, for you computer users...

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Blue camas (Camassia quamash), same pot, same spot, very different feel this year vs last, below (plus alternate takes)...

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One FULL YEAR today since my first #Bloomscrolling post!! 🥳

I think I'll show off more of this year's versions of some of my early favourites!:
- Perennial candytuft, just up the road again.
- Other side of estate (& last year's), below...
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Purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum L), along an old bridle path, besides a new school...
- Plus bumble bee!
- Very pretty UK weed/wildflower without stingers.
- Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), hanging out together.
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Oregon Grape (Mahonia), we have a load in our boarders, so I wanted to try and do it justice. Even if the bloom clusters are mostly quite raggedy. Bonus bee below..!

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A couple of chill border plants, around our old estate, in pastel lilac and azure:
- Bigleaf periwinkle (Vinca major L).
- Shrubby gromwell (Lithodora fruticosa).
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Red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum Pursh), another of the first blooms I posted last year. Found bushes all over, this year. Made an effort to catch our little one in evening sun...

Couldn't decide on best, more below, let me know which!

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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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