Wolves Wild

Cow parsley flowering. Could be growing on just about any patch of open, uncultivated ground at the moment, though these were all at different spots in the Smestow Valley.

Female orange tip butterfly spent over a complete day during wet and windy weather clinging tightly on t the flowers of a jack by the hedge plant. During this time, there was some very slight movement showing the insect was still alive. The next morning, it was gone.

Sedges growing by the canal, with their dark flowers. All along the canal – these were opposite the Wildside Centre.

The West Park turtle again, on a pleasantly warm day. The turtle seemed to be stretching its neck out further than normal.

Moorhen nibbling at the vegetation in a patch of reeds at the edge of the canal near Compton, in what it might have chosen as its nesting area.

The young heron from yesterday’s post, seconds later. Another man coming down the canal towpath, dog on lead. The heron finally decides it has had enough. Takes off, and rises over Compton lock as it heads for a less disturbed spot.