Wolves Wild

Red an green: scarlet elf cup fungi growing through a thick bed of moss. The paler outer surface of the fungi, most prominent here because of the angle of the shot, is where the spores are released from.

Red eye on this coot swimming straight towards me on the smaller pool at Perton.

Magpie on one of the information boards by the boating lake at West Park. From there it had a clear view of the prime spot for feeding the birds.

Willow catkins on a tree by the Smestow in the Paddock at Newbridge, just as the first pollen began to develop, giving them a slight yellow tinge.

Large and mature artists fungus growing on the base of a tree trunk, overlooking the Smestow Brook near Newbridge.

Confluence of the Graiseley Brook and the Smestow Brook. The Graiseley Brook crosses Compton Park almost completely culverted underground, merging once to feed Compton Park pond, then again at the far side of the Barley Field. Culverted again to pass under the Railway Walk, briefly in the open before a final culvrt under the canal at Prefab Weir (behind me when I took this picture). Then this last short stretch before meeting the Smestow, running parallel to Henwook Road.

Cherry flower in close-up. This one was on a tree growing by the Severn at Bridgnorth.

Male goldfinches coming to a garden feeder with niger seed. One of the birds spent a long time eating seed after seed – I cut more footage than I left in.

Glistening inkcaps growing by the Railway Walk at Newbridge, glistening in the dampness left by recent heavy rain.

Pussy willow catkins, only recently fully-formed from their immaculate state, holding raindrops from an overnight downpour.

Male blackbird prospecing one of the lawns in the Castle Grounds park at Bridgnorth, hunting for invertebrates. Getting left with a dirty beak from the moist soil.

Close-up of a lesser celandine flower, growing conveniently a waist level in a cutting on the canal near Aldersley Junction.