David

Model creatures in the city centre for the summer school holidays seems to be set as an annual event in Wolverhampton. This year’s theme is dinosaurs. The only one I’ve managed to see so far is this stegosaurus by the Bus Station.

A breezy day, pictures taken on a mobile phone: result, lots of motion blur on these close-ups of flowers and fruits on a Himalayan honeysuckle in a front garden opposite Bantock Park.

Tapered drone fly, a common hoverfly species. gathering the easily accessible pollen from a Japanese anemone flower.

A shaggy parasol. It may have been kicked over, or perhaps some of the snails and slugs which had eaten chunks out of the cap had also nibbled away at the base of its stem.

A white-tailed bumble bee busy gathering pollen from the cone flowers in a front garden.

The West Park Canada geese parents, like the swans. were left with one surviving young. Here they were keeping guard as it fed by the edge of the lake.