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Summer gallery 02/04/11

As spring gives way to summer, we bring you regular photo updates as the season unfolds. Have you some summer shots to share? Send them to mail@motspurpark.info

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Blooming: Swathes of glorious daffodils in Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Playing Fields (27/03/11)

Have you got a spring photo of Motspur Park you’d like to share? Send it to mail@motspurpark.info

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Wings of spring: This colourful butterfly was spotted in a Motspur Park garden (27/03/11)

New life: Frogspawn in a Motspur Park pond heralds the arrival of scores of tadpoles (20/03/11)

Burst of colour: These daffs are already out (13/03/11)

Yellow and white: Opening before your eyes (13/03/11)

In the pink: Cherry blossom in West Barnes Lane (13/03/11)

Out in front: A well-kept garden in West Barnes Lane (13/03/11)

On the watch: This Motspur Park moggie goes on the prowl for anything rustling in the shrubbery (27/03/11)

Parakeets in Bargate Close: At the roughly the same time every day we are visited by these dinner guests, loathe them or love them they seem to have colonised in much of Surrey and for the past couple of years in Motspur Park. I must confess that we are intrigued by them and still can’t quite believe that they have adapted to our climate. (Hazel Weekes, 22/03/11)

Jumping: It’s not just people that are getting out to exercise in the park in the spring sunshine (27/03/11)

Prim and proper: These primroses add some colour in the North-East Surrey Crematorium, off Lower Morden Lane (27/03/11)

Beady eyed: These sisters love scrubbing about in their Marina Avenue garden for worms (27/03/11)

On the nest: A short walk across the Sir Joseph Hood fields towards Worcester Park, this mute swan keeps the eggs warm on a lake at The Hamptons (01/04/11)

External link: Mute swans (wikipedia)

Sundown: The sun sets across the water in parkland at The Hamptons, looking towards Motspur Park’s gasometers (01/04/11)

External link:
The Hamptons

Swanning around: Graceful curves of this mute swan are reflected by the lake (01/04/11)

Keeping watch: Two ducks look out over a lake at The Hamptons as dusk falls (01/04/11)

Floating: This swan’s nest at The Hamptons is on a large mound that they build with waterside vegetation in shallow water. They are monogamous and often reuse the same nest each year (01/04/11)

Friend or foe? This little fox cub has been spotted several times playing with its siblings in Marina Avenue and in the access road for Motspur Park’s gasometers. But Thomas Moor, who took these photos, keeps chickens and has to be extra careful they don’t fall prey to the cubs
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View from the roof: This picture – and the next few – were taken by Graham Racher who writes: “I thought you might like some photos of the wildlife I've photographed in Marina Avenue. Friends have also seen an owl, but I wasn't fast enough to see it myself.”
(28/04/11)

Peckish: Great spotted woodpecker, photographed by Graham Racher of Marina Avenue
(28/04/11)

Pondlife: Newts, photographed by Graham Racher of Marina Avenue
(28/04/11)

Clinging on: Ringnecked parakeet, photographed by Graham Racher of Marina Avenue
(28/04/11)

Garden beauties: Robin and a grey heron, photographed by Graham Racher of Marina Avenue
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