Wolves Wild

As this red admiral eagerly fed on ivy flowers, it folded its wings almost together to display the muted colours of the underside.

These ornamental crab apples are on adjacent trees slightly upstream from Compton Lock’.

View over the lake towards where the sun is just about to appear over the city centre.

Most blackberries have ripened now, but not these.

Several of these ripe elderberries are shrivelled – something which seems to be affecting the berries of diverse types of bushes this year.

This large fly was resting on the leaf and rubbing its legs together, presumably to clean them.