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Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in flight. These guys are very acrobatic flyers.

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Gadwall (Mareca strepera) being all alone in the reeds.

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Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) wrestling with a dragonfly.

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Wagtail (Motacilla alba) with a beak full of insects.

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Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) flowers.

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Camouflaged. Not sure what kind of insect this is, but it blends in pretty well.

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Swan butt.

Mute swan (Cygnus olor).

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Looking after Junior. Two Canada geese (Branta canadensis) with a frolicking gosling (s/he kept making dashes away from the adults and then tripping and getting up again).

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Tufted ducks (Aythya fuligula) on a lake.

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Like father, like son.

Greylag goose (Anser anser) and gosling. Managed to catch this just as the gosling looked up from grazing.

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Inchworm that I found on the brim of my hat. We returned him to nature.

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A mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) trying to get some sleep.

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Coots (Fulica atra) doing coot things on a lake.

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Four-spotted chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata) soaking up some rays.

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Western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) looking for prey.

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Common brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) trysting with a (unidentified) bug.

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Roman snails (Helix pomatia) resting on branches of a small tree, with epiphragms.

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Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs).

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Tree bumblebee, or new garden bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum).

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Liverleaf (Anemone hepatica or Hepatica nobilis).

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More cherry blossoms, of a different kind.

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Cherry blossoms. It's that time of year.

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European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca).

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Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes). Colorful little bird, but difficult to spot. Usually they hang out in the treetops, but this one was pretty close to the forest floor and stayed long enough for me to snap a couple of blurry pictures and this somewhat sharp one.

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Green rose chafer (Cetonia aurata).

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Green-veined white (Pieris napi).

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Using live ammunition, I see.

The variable damselfly or variable bluet (Coenagrion pulchellum).

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Burnet companion moth (Euclidia glyphica) feeding off a flower.

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European peacock butterfly (Aglais io).

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A European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) offended at being photographed while it is stuffing its face.

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A comma (Polygonia c-album) butterfly.

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A winter moth (Operophtera brumata) sitting on a window.

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A goat moth (Cossus cossus) caterpillar.

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Latticed heath (Chiasmia clathrata).

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Not sure what this little guy or gal is, but it landed on the wood banister of a birding tower, and I snapped a picture of it.

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Pterostichus niger, a European ground beetle.

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Some kind of wasp.

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Striped shield bug (Graphosoma lineatum).

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I'm no entomologist, but I think this might be a wood ant, Formica rufa.

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King of the hill.

Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) on a rock out in a lake.

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A Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) on a fence post.

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Female common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) on a windy day.

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White wagtail (Motacilla alba) walking on a flooded lawn.

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Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) sitting on a fence.

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Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius), wondering why I disturbed its breakfast foraging to take pictures of it.

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Roman snails (Helix pomatia).

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