Wolves Wild

The shiny metallic green of the body of the greenbottle fly, and its bright red eyes, as it suns itself on a mint, and flies from leaf to leaf.

The range of colours adopted by blackberries as they ripen on a bramble. Some look as though they are already good enough to eat.

Teazles at the end of their flowering season. Before the Stratford on Avon LNR was developed as a nature reserve, one of the fields which had more or less been left to manage itself was dominated by teazles.

Common bird’s-foot trefoil [Lotus corniculatus], just growing by the edge of the footpath on the Stratford on Avon Local Nature Reserve,

Buck’s-horn plantain [Plantago coronopus], until recently limited to coastal regions by its preference in soil types, but now spreading inland. This one was growing on a pavement, directly under the wall of the Quikfit outlet in the centre of Stratford on Avon.

A small gathering of fish in a side arm of the Avon at Stratford, seen from a bridge. They may have been Common rudd [Scardinius erythrophthalmus].