Wolves Wild

Badger paw print made in soft earth at the entrance to its sett, with deep indentations from the claw-tipped toes.

Male and female tufted ducks on a small pool in Sandwell Valley, the opposite side of the River Tame to the RSPB Reserve.

Teazles growing on the slope leading down to Forge Mill Pool in the Sandwell Valley.

Splashes of colour from the planting around the bandstand in the Bridgnorth Castle Gardens from ornamental plants. A delicately purple-tinted cabbage towering over the red and yellow flowers of some sort of daisy.

Sparse hairs (some other cranesbills look downy) on leaves turning red mark this as a shining cranesbill. This plant was one of several growing by the canal towpath not far from the Dunstall Water Bridge.

A fruit from a horse chestnut from last year, one of several lying in other plant debris in a front garden.

It had perhaps been blown of the tree before it was ripe. The knobbly outer covering had never split to reveal the conker within.