Wolves Wild

Safe up a tree on an island in the lake at West Park, a heron stays watchful.

It even kept an eye on me.

The size of these blackberries gives away that they are a cultivated variety.

Purple loosestrife in flower, as it grows by the edge of the pool at Bantock Park.

Soft downy “parachutes” carry thistle seeds away from the parent plant. Here it looks like the plant is having a bad hair day. Have the seeds been disarranged by the wind, or by hungry birds?

Ripening damsons, one of which has been attacked by some kind of insect.

A sprinkling of white pollen has fallen on the lower petals of this great willowherb flower.