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Snapshot Suffolk: Your best pictures from lockdown this week




Hundreds of you are in the running for our Snapshot Suffolk crown, and this week the quality is as good as ever.

The winning photo will of course receive a £20 Love2Shop voucher along with a six-month pass for our digital app.

To enter, share your images follow us on Instagram @buryfreepress, Twitter @buryfree and Facebook facebook.com/BuryFreePress and tag your posts using #SnapshotSuffolk. You can also email pictures to us at news@buryfreepress.co.uk with Snapshot Suffolk as the subject.

This week's captions

‘Swan with cygnets’ at Great and Little Freeman’s Common, Sudbury. Sent in from Andy Sheldon in Ballingdon.

Hawstead wildlife, as sent in by Laura Eastwood.

Laura Eastwood also sent us ‘Hawstead Sunsets’.

Michelle Hoggett found light in a dark place.

Brenden Mee was in Dingle Marshes near Dunwich where he watched this stunning female Linnet collecting nesting materials ready for her future fledglings.

Sharon Richardson was working in her Bury St Edmunds garden when she saw a squirrel tucking in.

Ipswich-based Tom Wyverm captures an early summer skyline.

Alan Wiseman from Haverhill found plenty of tadpoles in his garden wildlife pond.

Pigs alongside the Ixworth to Pakenham road take shelter from the dust storm. Sally Smith of Manor Garth, Pakenham, sent this in.

These two mice were not prepared to back down when it came to who would have the last of the food. Sent in by Simmy Knight in Bury.

Archana Prabagaran sent us this view of Ipswich Waterfront.

Nancy Long, aged seven, spotted a double rainbow near her family home in Hartest.

Daisy Bolton sent us a picture of her cat Thomas.

Archie Bolton spots a blackbird.

Tibor Pollerman, of Horringer, took this shot near the Skyliner Sports Centre.

Phil Faircloth from Cowlidge found a ‘very busy kingfisher’ on the River Stour.

Phil also found this egret.

While canoeing the River Waveney, Katy Firth found some company in Mendham.

Amanda Clarke found swans and ten cygenets.

Ron Dudley in Bury St Edmunds said this is the first year of peony flowering.

Ron then took this on a Sunday morning stroll along Sparhawk Street.

Susan Wiseman said this was taken on a walk in Clare Country Park.

Max MacGillivray sent us ‘Time for a Splash’ featuring his son Boo MacGillivray at a a farmer friend’s irrigation reservoir near Bury.

Chris Woodard from Thurston sent in this family of swan and cygnets on the river Blackbourne between Honington and Sapiston.

Swans and cygnets were also spotted on Needham Lake by Daniel Todd.

Lewis Grainger gets a bit too close for social distancing to a greylag goose with a gosling at West Stow Country Park.

Mandy Porter finds a friendly squirrel by the graveyard next to the Abbey Gardens