Wolves Wild

Poppies as their flowering season draws towards a close. The petals of most flowers had already dropped, with the remaining ones fading rapidly.

Once more from the small pond in Bewdley Museum garden, two great pond snails.

A bumblebee shuffling around gathering pollen from a bright red sunflower. Once again, this was in the little gem of a walled garden in the museum at Bewdley.

A white-flowered wisteria putting out a second set of flowers in August. The setting: the beer garden of the George Hotel in Bewdley.

Common darters are indeed among the dragonflies most likely to be spotted. The first of these was resting on vegetation by the small pond in the museum at Bewdley; the second by the nearby pond in Jubilee Gardens.

This second one may have been the loser in a contest we had seen a few minutes previously, to decide which of two dragonflies would have the evidently desirable territory of the museum pond.

Grapes growing in the town museum at Bewdley, looking like the long, hot summer was ripening them completely.