Wolves Wild

The fruit ripening on a flowering current, a gardening shrub. These were on a shrub in a front garden.

A young magpie at the edge of one of the Barley Field paths, spreading its feathers widely as it presses its body to the ground. It’s anting: encouraging ants to climb over tis feathers, possibly to control parasites.

The flowers on a staghorn sumac, bright red.

Thistledown, looks so soft. Is so soft.

A patch of ragwort flowers was attracting lots of bumble bees. Pictured here are a red-tailed bumble bee and a buff-tailed bumble bee.

Gatekeeper butterfly resting on a leaf. Like most gatekeepers, it was in a spot on the margins between a wooded area (often just a hedge) and more open vegetation.