Wolves Wild

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.

View of a comma butterfly at the start of the month. It was resting on a leaf, warming itself in the morning sun.

Dandelion seed head before any of the seeds had begun to blow away.

Wetland Lake is the pool, still less than two years old, formed by allowing the Graiseley Brook to emerge briefly from its underground culvert as it crosses the former school playing fields in Compton Park, now the area by the housing development.

Water mint is successfully established growing round much of the margin of the pool: here seen looking down from the wooden footbridge.

Horse chestnut flowers arranged on a spike rising from a twig, resembling an elaborate candelabra. This was on one of the trees in Bantock Park.

Bumble bees coming in to land on comfrey flowers. Pollen baskets are visible on the rear legs of the bees.

Nettles bracket plantains in flower as they all grow on the edge of the canal at Castlecroft.

Well-established and well-trained wisterias are striking in spring when pale purple flowers contrast with the yellowish colour of the new leaves. One such is growing across the front of the Mermaid Inn on Bridgnorth Road.

Fields of winter wheat and oilseed rape in the foreground of a view of the whaleback ridge of the Wrekin from a lane on the Shropshire / Staffordshire county boundary near Patsull Park.

The flowers on true nettles are small and inconspicuous. These were approximately purple in colour.

Crab apples flowers with a fly exploring one of the petals.

Pink campion flowers on a plant growing on a local woodland floor. The hairs on the leaves and stem will be to protect the plant from being eaten.