Wolves Wild

Robin carefully checking that everything is safe, then taking a quick sip of water from a bird bath.

The bank by the side of Mop’s Farm bridge (over the canal, heading out into the countryside beyond Castlecroft) used to be covered in violets and lesser celandines growing wild in spring. Then the bank started to get heavy foot traffic being used as an unofficial link between the canal towpath and the bridleway across the bridge. For several years, celandine numbers plummeted, and the violets disappeared completely. Now, they’re back.

Right at the top of a tree, a pair of wood pigeons.

A series of blushing bracket fungi growing on a half-fallen tree trunk by the Railway Walk near Newbridge. The upper surface is initially off-white, later developing the red-brown “blush”.

This long-tailed tit was reluctant to be photographed as it flitted about the branches of a buddleia bush. First pointing its long tail directly at me, then hiding on the far side of the bush.

Similar colours, but two types of lichens (between patches of moss) growing on all the blackthorn bushes in the thicket between the Barley Field and Railway Walk.