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Otter Lutra lutra perched on a boulder with a fish it’s just caught, ferns mud and a little folaige behind

Watercress Nasturtium officinale with flower and seeds and edible leaves

True fox sedge Carex vulpina tussock

Reedmace Typha latifolia rhizome detail with roots and vegetative shoot growing from a rhizome

Pendulous sedge Carex pendulosa with ligule, stigmas, and fruit

Pondweed Potamogeton praelongus with seeds held erect out of the water and lanceolate leaves underwater

Lesser Water Parsnip Berula erecta with individual flower and fruit

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

Greater reedmace Typha latifolia flowering spike

Guelder rose Viburnum opulus pencil drawing showing flowering head and berries

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium with stem cross section and lots of leaves

Crack willow Salix fragilis tree shape without leaves and individual sprig of leaves and flowering catkin

Himalayan balsam Impatiens glandulifera study page with colour details of the red flushed stem, orchid like purple flowers, details of different colour forms, close up of the seed pod, wash on one green leaf, graphite or pencil tonal studies of another leaf, and details of the little red growths below where a leaf adheres to […]

Otter Lutra lutra perched on a boulder with a fish it’s just caught, ferns mud and a little folaige behind

Lesser Horseshoe bat Rhinolophus hipposideros in flihgt revealing domething of its complicated facial and nose structure

Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii in flight with open mouth, cut to white

Grayling Thymallus thymallus

Moorhen Gallinula chloropus swimming cut to white

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus in amongst typical coastal plants of the Pembrokeshire coast including squill, thrift, kidney vetch, daisies, and lichen with a second bird flying behind

Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea breeding male stood on a mossy stone in a stream

Dipper eating aquatic invertebrate

Goosander or Common merganser Mergus merganser on a lake with sundew, rocks and a beach in the foreground, scrubby vegetation behind, set in northern Wales uplands.

Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus male with erect crest

Dabchick or Little grebe pair Tachybaptus ruficollis