Wolves Wild

Lamb in a field crossed by a footpath.

Pink campion in flower by a canal towpath at the start of last month.

Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on a nettle with its wings together, the underwings visible. The colours are much less bright that the upper surface of the wings.

Gob of foamy “cuckoo spit” on vegetation, which seems particularly abundant this year. It’s protective coating for the nymph of a froghopper (a type of insect).

A tiny flower of a bryony peeping from behind one of the plant’s hairy leaves.

The flowers on birch trees are one of the latest of the catkin-like ones to appear.

Coot chick, grown enough to swim off without parental supervision and to dive in search of its own food.

Fly in a buttercup flower, its tongue out to eat the nectar.

Japanese acers in West Park at the end of last month, with seeds just beginning to develop and giving strong colour contrasts with the vivid leaves.

Delicate pink flower of a cranesbill. On the right a flower has gone over and the seed is beginning to ripen in the vaguely beak shaped seed case which gives the plant its name.

Ladybird clinging on to the underside of the seed head of a stalk of grass growing by the side of a canal.

Jack by the hedge stem, with some flowers still remaining and others having begun to develop into seeds. There is a thread showing a small spider is in residence.