Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Holly blue butterflies have upper wings which are a beautiful blue, but such a fluttery flight that I have never been able to grab a picture of one in the air.
When they land, they fold their wings, only the less vivid underwings are visible.
There’s an area of canal towpath near Compton, evidently directly under a tree used as a perch by birds, where every spring the butterflies seem to feed or to get moisture from the same insalubrious source.
One of the most colourful of regular visitors to garden birdseed feeders, a goldfinch, eating seeds.
Yellow archangel in flower, growing by the Railway Walk at Newbridge. Probably a garden escape.
The farm animal area at Northycote has been closed for some time because of COVID lockdown restrictions. It’s now re-opened, in time to make it possible to get closer to the lambs, not long born.
Tiny hoverfly, one of the Bacchini tribe, resting near the tip of a laurel leaf
Basking in the sun, standing in the lake on a half-submerged fallen branch, the West Park turtle. It was moving, but very slowly. Perhaps to get exactly the right angle from the sunlight, perhaps to keep its balance as the coot on the other end of the branch preened.