Wolves Wild

Not a welcome visitor to gardens, but when pictured this turnip sawfly was taking a rest on a hazel leaf.

Pen, the female swan, swimming with this year’s five cygnets on West Park lake. The cob was a little further away, keeping watch.

Chocolate irises in a front garden; flag irises on the edge of the pool at Fowlers Park.

This year’s sole brood (so far) of young Canada geese from the large West Park flock. The goslings seem to prefer sitting on the tarmac of the footpath around the lake.

More spring fungi. Usually quite common, this is one of the few clusters of glistening inkcaps I’ve noticed this year. They were in Old Nursery Wood, growing from the wood placed to makr the edge of one of the footpaths.

An adult heron, resting high in one of the trees on an island in West Park lake, pictured as I moved to inclreaingly higher zoom settings on the camera.