Wolves Wild

The showy plumage of a male pheasant. This one had found some delicacy to eat in the little wood behind the bus stop in Wyken.

What must be one of the most magnificent specimens of a wisteria publicly visible in Wolverhampton, in full flower on the front of the Mermaid Inn on the Bridgnorth Road.

When these pictures were taken earlier this week, the warm midday sun was making the flowers produce their strong sweet scent, which the blustery breeze was dispersing in waves across the tables of the pub’s outdoor area.

This farm cat seemed to take a guarding stance, vigilant against any threat I might pose to the muscovy duck and ducklings featured in the previous post.

Muscovy duck keeping watch over brood of nine fluffy ducklings.

Mass of red dead nettle on a patch of ground by the entrance to the village at Worfield, with a few daisies and lesser celandines hard to spot in the crowd.

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As this week’s weather turns cold, a look back to the balmy days of last week, and flowers which were brought on by the warm spring sun.

These bluebells were in woods in the Worfe valley upstream of Rindleford.

Blue and white bluebells (presumably cultivated, and the Spanish species) growing together in a corner of the quiet churchyard at Berkswell.

Tortoiseshell butterfly extending its long proboscis to syphon up some of the nectar from the mass of flowers on a blackthorn bush.

Pasque flowers (actually pictured in Easter week) growing in a front garden in Bridgnorth. They had so much pollen it was falling onto the lower petals.

Its springtime, so there must be young lambs in the fields. These could be seen from quiet footpaths in south Shropshire.

Flowers on a mature araucaria (monkey puzzle) in the centre of Wombourne.

Tortoiseshell butterfly seeming to be trying to get nectar from a daffodil by approaching through the back of the flower.