Picspam - Crossrail, Crow, Fungi, Squirrels, Mandarins, a Chinese Barge and a Pretty Flower

[ffutures]

I haven't made a picspam post in a while, so it's time for another selection.

First, some track being transported into the Crossrail tunnels, and a weird little engine which presumably has some special function

(later) I think that the bigger engine is a normal diesel that brings them to the tunnel, the white engine is an electric shunting engine of some sort to take them into the tunnel.









Next, a big crow that was watching me when I passed a construction site yesterday.







A colony of weirdly coloured bracket fungi I noticed by the canal a couple of weeks ago:









A very friendly squirrel that came begging for nuts in the park last week - the second picture is with an infra-red filter, anything that shows white reflects infra-red:







A pair of Mandarin ducks I saw on the canal last week:











A Chinese restaurant on a barge - there's a coot's nest to the right. This is where I've seen a cormorant a couple of times, but not so far this year.





And a rather pretty but very small flower I saw by the canal today, but can't so far identify. I don't know if it's native to Britain or something escaped from a garden. Anyone know?

Comments

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

::squints:: I think the plant is an anemone (https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fflowerinfo.org%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fanemone-flower%2Fanemone-flower-6.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fflowerinfo.org%2Fanemone-flowers&docid=kDWsPcpyBZry4M&tbnid=mLc901y2NYXNVM%3A&w=486&h=500&bih=672&biw=1024&ved=0ahUKEwi_qcy1k57MAhVVGsAKHWscBIYQMwglKAMwAw&iact=mrc&uact=8)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm not a botanist - my biology background is mostly zoology - but it sounds plausible.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think you are right :)