Wolves Wild

Flowers growing in a clump in a front garden.

Buds of yellow flag iris flowers just before they opened in the middle of last month.

Fly on a bramble leaf, the red of its eyes contrasting with the green of the leaf.

Yellow laburnum flowers dangling from a branch.

Bull and a couple of cows lying, relaxed, in a field not far from Worfield.

A sole lady’s smock thriving among the other vegetation on an island on the new pool in Compton Park. It was flowering earlier this month.

Deceptively rural-looking glimpse of the Merry Hill Brook, which makes a brief appearance at Warstones.

It emerges from an underground culvert at Warstones Lane, opposite the primary school, then passes at the back of the green space. It is mainly inaccessible behind a thick hawthorn hedge with bramble understorey.

These pictures taken from the downstream end, where the brook disappears back into a culvert at the back of Warstones Library, continuing its course heading under Pinfold Lane.

They are taken from virtually the same spot. The second, wider angle, view undermines the illusion of tranquillity by including some of the steel and concrete of the culvert entrance.

Tortoiseshell butterfly resting on a leaf so it was almost facing me directly.

Finchfield Waterside Care are a FIN (Freshwater Invertebrate Network) group. They carry out regular censuses of the section of the Finchfield Brook which runs along the border of Turner’s Field by Smestow School – this was yesterday.

Among the findings netted: water slaters, which are freshwater-living relatives of woodlice; mayfly larvae, and the ever so tiny Jenkinsspire shell snail.

On the edge of the barley Field, a cloud of white umbellifer flowers, and behind them hawthorn bushes, also covered in white flowers.

Peacock butterfly which kept changing position to get at the nectar as it fed on a dandelion.

The darker colour of the leaves at the top of the plant is an indication that they have only recently grown, or are still growing.