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petersketch

@petersketch@toot.wales

#Dragonfly obsessed environmental consultant. Welsh exile in Swindon. Mainly #wildlife and #botany with a sideline in unsuccessful sports teams and jokes about politics. #CharltonAthletic #LondonWelsh #CambridgeCity #GlamorganCricket #UKLabour

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Wood Avens. Always one of my favourites; this one was near my mother's house in yesterday.

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A speedwell for . Pretty sure it's Wood Speedwell - the flowers were less blue and more purple in real life.

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Red Campion for the challenge. Not one of my more difficult botanising trips - it's growing in a planter in my front yard in which I encourage wild flowers. Not that they don't also take over the rest of the yard, but some of them aren't so good at growing in the cracks.

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Beaked Hawksbeard for . Another long botanising trip for this one - it was in a crack between the paving in my driveway. I get a really good floral display from the local weed species, but it does get tricky to find somewhere to actually park the car...

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My favourite photo of the week - Field Forget-me-not growing on a grassy bit which one of the local business parks is encouraging to grow as wildflowers. Smaller and paler flowers than the hulking big garden escapes I see more often in urban .

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A bit late for - Wood Speedwell from the grounds of the American cemetery at Cambridge last weekend.

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In ten years or so of threats and promises of UK leaving the ECHR, there has never once been an attempt to explain how such a departure can square with the Good Friday Agreement.

The issue is simply ignored - and the threat and promise is simply repeated, for claps and cheers.

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@davidallengreen While I'm aware that the standard modus operandi for the government is to say they'll leave the ECHR but then do nothing about it, it can only be a matter of time before people on the right of the party start campaigning for Irish reunification on the grounds that it's a necessary precondition for the rest of the UK to leave the ECHR.

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This is a garden escapee, growing beside a public footpath in . It's a garden variety of Wood Forget-me-not. I assume it was bred for a long flowering season and that may be why it's so early. Not sure if it will manage to dodge the mowers when they start up again in the spring.

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@thepoliticalcat Myosotis sylvatica.

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An exciting find for this week - Annual Mercury in yesterday. Yes, it's in flower. Honest.

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Clematis for . On a walk round this morning before the weather deteriorated. There's loads of this in the hedges at the moment.

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Still plenty of Oxford Ragwort in flower in the town centre in if you hunt around a bit.

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It's December so welcome to the 2023 featuring a different species each day for 24 days. We start with a Southern Migrant Hawker. A fairly recent arrival in the UK; this one was at in July. They like ditches with very little water, even if they dry out in summer. They're huge compared to most other UK species.

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Day 10 of the 2023 . It's a Sunday in Advent so I'll post my favourite species, the Banded Demoiselle. The female is bright green, the males have patterned wings and make display flights over the water to impress her. Beside the at in June.

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Day 11 of the 2023 . Four-spotted Chaser is common, bulky and males are fond of fighting over ponds. Which makes them great to watch and a frequent food-source for hobbies. They also mate in flight, during which they're joined into a circle, with the female flying upside down and backwards. It's quite a sight. This male was at Meadows in June.

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Day 12 of the 2023 . Azure is very common and lives almost everywhere in the UK. The males are one of two common species that are almost entirely bright blue. This mating pair was at my local park in in June.

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Day 13 of the 2023 . Migrant Hawker is our commonest large species in the autumn, sometimes feeding in large numbers at the edge of woodlands. This female was at Lakes in October.

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Day 14 of the 2023 . Common Blue is one of two UK damselfly species which are very common and have males which are very blue. In really good spots you may see them flying in swarms. This one was at Common National Nature Reserve in August.

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Day 15 of the 2023 . Broad-bodied Chaser is an easy species to spot in early summer - they're large, they like to sit in the open to sunbathe and males are bright blue. They're often the first species to find a new pond, if it's large enough for them. This one was in the in June.

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Day 16 of the 2023 . Willow Emerald is a new species to the UK in the last 20 years. It's longer & thinner than the Common Emerald and flies later in the summer. This male at the wonderful in September. They have spread across the UK quite rapidly, starting from Suffolk, now as far west as Oxford & as far north as the Humber

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Day 17 of the 2023 . Delving back into the past to find a pink species for the third Sunday of advent. Violet Dropwing doesn't occur in the UK - this was in in 2016 at the Villa Ada park. They are an African species which is spreading north through southern Europe in recent years but is still a long way from reaching us.

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Day 18 of the 2023 . It looks very like the two common species with blue males, but Southern Damselfly is one of our rarest species. This one was in the , a stronghold for them, in June.

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Day 19 of the 2023 . Norfolk Hawker. Also known as Green-eyed Hawker, but don't tell our Norfolk county recorder that! This one at in July but they're now quite widespread outside too - they have been quite a conservation success story in recent years.

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Day 20 of the 2023 . Small Red-eyed is one of two UK species with red eyes and blue tails. Both species are often seen sitting on vegetation on the surface of a pond or ditch. It arrived here in 1999 and has spread across most of England & parts of Wales. This one at motorway services in August.

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Day 21 of the 2023 . Scarce Emerald looks very like Common Emerald. The eyes are brighter blue and it's a bit more chunky looking. There are also some more subtle but specific & reliable differences if you know what to look for. It's confined to eastern parts of the UK - this one at in July.

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Day 22 of the 2023 . Black-tailed Skimmers are often seen sunbathing on the ground or other flat surfaces. This one was on a boardwalk over the bog at Common National Nature Reserve in August.

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