Wolves Wild

Early morning view of the West Park cygnets and the pen, the cygnets eating vegetation near the edge of the lake while the pen ate too and kept watch.

The cob was also on guard, just out of shot.

West Park moorhen with its lone chick by the edge of the lake. The chick was tring hard to get the attention of the parent, itself intent on preening.

Marmalade hover fly, a small hoverfly. There is a chance of seeing one at any time of year.

There’s been a gap in posts for the last couple of days because I’ve just had an unexpected visit to new Cross Hospital to have a pacemaker fitted. For the next few weeks, as I recover from the operation, I will be posting less than usual, and relying on pictures already accumulated.

The service and the staff at the Heart and Lung Centre were, as ever, wonderful.

Mullein moth caterpillar on what was a rapidly disappearing butterfly bush leaf. Pictures taken over the course of four days as I kept trying to find a time when its head wasn’t out of sight,lowered to disappear the leaf it was standing on.

I went back again the next day, to find that it was now the caterpillar which was disappeared, presumably as a meal for one or other of the invertebrate-eating birds which haunt the garden.

One of the Tettenhall buzzards, midday, circling over the Barley Field, using the warm air rising from the field to climb.

Ten flies. all different species.