Wolves Wild

Self-heal, common summer meadow flowers, often easily overlooked because they are dwarfed by the surrounding grasses.

Beetle with forking antennae climbing down the leaf of a reed on the edge of the river Worfe.

Moorhen adult and a chick grown to the same size, still in juvenile plumage, both on the nest by the canal at Castlecroft.

Flower of an ox-eye daisy, the tallest British daisy, common in wildflower meadows rising above the grasses.

Artichoke head ripening on the top of its tall stem.

At the height of summer, parts of Turner’s Field in the Smestow Valley are covered by a mass of rosebay willowherb.