Wolves Wild

Thistle flower bud, very spiky.

Ladybird, possibly a harlequin, on a nettle hunting the aphids which are also on the plant.

After yesterday’s shorn lambs, some which still had their wool and could have auditioned for the nursery rhyme. All this year’s at Northycote Farm are black sheep.

This one seemed determined to test out the old saying about the grass on the other side of the fence.

Meadow salsify, also known as Jack go to bed at noon, or as goat’s beard, is a common plant of hedgerows and meadows.

When it’s completely open, the flower looks like a slightly smaller version of a dandelion, on a longer and thinner stalk. It only opens for the morning – hence the going to bed at noon.

When I last passed Ram Hall on the edge of Berkswell the ewes and lambs of the farm’s sheep herd were been shorn. Those which had already lost their wool were already back in the field.

The farm makes “Berkswell” cheese from unpasturised sheepsmilk.

Bunch of hawthorn berries at the start of the process of formation.