The last time we caught the fox on the trail cam was at 10.30, two nights ago, in the back garden, meanwhile on the front lawn . . .

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Spoonbill, ruff, heron and bittern; gipsywort and 'designer phragmites' at St Aidan's.

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In my rather neglected corner of 'meadow', a small hoverfly is fascinated by the lime green top of my pen and explores it as I draw.

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On our walk around Carr Gate, near Wakefield, yesterday, fat-hen, a common weed, was growing on a grass verge alongside a slip road and perennial sowthistle at the side of the track by a small wood.

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My sketchbook spread of found objects picked up on a lawn has an autumnal feel. We’re not quite there but on a dull August day there’s a feeling that the end of summer is looming.

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I spotted these fossil brachiopods and snails in the walls of Beech Farm Cottages, Wrelton, near Pickering.

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The cuckoo-pint berries look like bunches of party balloons but there's an end-of-summer feel to the landscape and the meadow brown feeding on honey-scented creeping thistle flowers looks a bit the worse for wear.

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Keelworm tubes on a mussel shell, barnacles on a shore crab carapace and a small frond of bladderwrack, from our day at North Beach, Bridlington, last month.

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