Author: David

Humbug snail in a hole in one of the trees in Hawthorn Wood. The other contents of the hole might be a result of its use by a nesting bird.

This less conspicuously coloured dragonfly is, I presume, a female of the same species as the males in the previous post.

She was the only one on the rail.

Common darter dragonflies are already established on the new pool in Compton Park.

As previously mentioned, they like the woodwork of the footbridge for their perching positions.

There are three males in these pictures.

Each had his territory on a different stretch of the railing.

The colours in the sky are often more vivid at sunset than dawn. The morning this was taken was an exception.

Two of the East Park squirrels, each holding an acorn in their front paws as they gnawed at it.

Two of the East Park squirrels, almost seeming to fly as they crossed the Dell in leaps and bounds.

The squirrels in East Park are a good deal leaner and warier than their pampered, sometimes overweight cousins in Wolverhampton’s other Victorian park.

This one was watching me watching it.

Recently emerged shaggy parasols in East Park.

Like those in West Park at about the same time, these were growing under a patch of conifers.

More of this year’s brown birch boletes.

These had appeared less than a day before they were pictured.

Hawthorn shield bugs are one of the commoner shield bugs. They are seen in the autumn when their preferred food, haws, ripen.

This one was on the leaf of a rose bush. The ones I see never seem to be on hawthorn: in 2010 resting on a wall, and in 2011 on an ivy leaf.

Bracket fungi on a rotten log resting in a pool in Bob’s Brook in the Cotwall End LNR. The pool may be one of the ones created by dams in the brook to make mill ponds when the valley was a hive of mining and quarrying.

The log was too far out to get a clear enough view to identify the fungus species.

Bullrush flower growing close to the footbridge on Wetland Lake.