David

Views towards Wolverhampton city centre from the Two Greens pub. Seen from high on the Tettenhall ridge, the city looks rather green. A gift from the Victorian city fathers, who had trees planted along many of the roads. The shots directly towards St Peters Church and the Civic Centre have leafy West Park on the low ground below.

Three black headed gulls on a fallen bough by the island in West Park lake, behind them a football which someone kicked too hard.

Although the picture was only taken a few days ago, the gulls still have their breeding season plumage with the dark caps. Bright sunlight shows up these capa as brown, not actually black.

A juvenile squirrel in West Park. It’s easy to tell it’s still young: all the mature ones get fed so many peanuts they are on the large side.

A West Park magpie. Its short tail probably means it’s still a juvenile. Looking rather scruffy with ragged plumage.

Yuccas are evolved for conditions a lot drier and hotter than this summer has been. But these plants, in West Park, still seem to have managed to flower as usual.

It seemed like there were hundreds of yellow and black striped cinnabar moth caterpillars crawling over a patch of ragworts, their yellow stripes matching the yellow of the ragwort flowers. In reality, there were something over fifty, an impressive enough number.