An excellent year for meadow buttercups.
If you venture into the field behind the field behind the Mundy Playing Field (need to give it a name - maybe the tobogganning field) there is not only a feast of buttercups but also of Pignut.
Pignut is a much smaller relative of Cow Parsley - only about a foot or 18" tall (30-45cm). It's called pignut because each plant has a little tuber on its roots resembling a hazel nut. Pigs like them and so do people. Try one.
[but don't try just any umbellifer as some of them have sap which can irritate the skin and some are deadly poisonous]
You can check it's a pignut plant you are looking at by finding the small, divided leaves on the stem.
This one even has some cuckoo spit on it as a bonus.
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