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Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering head in pencil, also sometimes know (wrongly) as bull rush

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering spike

False oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius with ligule, spikelet and lemma detail including info on the elongate bent awns

Common Cottongrass Eriophorum angustifolium showing red leaf tip and stem cross section as well as entire plant

Broad leaved Cottongrass Eriophorum latifollium with individual seed, murcinate leaf tip, stem cross section, and flowering spike

Long tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus clinging to a branch and looking very fluffy with long black tail and distinctive pinkish feathers

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos fledgling with moulting feathers on grass

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos ducklings foraging on grass under the watchful eye of their mother with distinctive blue speculum

Two juvenile fledgling mallard ducks in a grass field, quacking

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos ducklings with food and a flat dish with water and marbles in to teach bred ducklings to dabble without fear of drowning

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos duckling in the process of hatching from its egg, half in half our and exhausted with wet feathers