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A reed growing beside the canal at Castlecroft had been used as the scaffolding by a spider building its web.

One of this year’s sloes, still green as it just begins to ripen.

The remains of what is probably a hoverfly trapped in a spider’s web, now wrapped up and stored for later consumption.

A dragonfly pauses from its hunting of smaller insects flying over the pool in the garden at Wightwick Manor.

This picture was taken in September 2009, when there was free entry to the property over the Heritage Open Day weekend.

The photo is one of the illustrations to my article in the current edition of Wolverhampton Magazine. 

One of a large group of mushrooms growing on a pile of wood chips – a favourite habitat for many species of fungi.

Shaggy parasol mushrooms usually grow to about eight or nine inches tall. This one was only about half that size.