Wolves Wild

Just seen, out of focus behind a screen of reeds, a little grebe on the big pool at Perton. I was told it had been trying to eat a fish which was too big to swalow.

Pink cherry flowers on a riverside tree at Bridgnorth. Out of focus as the background, the Severn in flood.

Hawthorn bush with the leaves just beginning to emerge from the buds, Perton. On the end of one of the twigs, a robin.

Once again, two or three days after the highest water levels, the Severn at Bridgnorth in the aftermath of Storm Dennis. Looking downstream from the old bridge, where there is usually a gang of birds hoping to be fed, the goosander pair only can just be made out.

Swan pair on Perton pool, heads reaching down to the gravel watered as the Penk enters the pool, a favoured eating spot. Each bout of feeding went on for a long time before they needed to briefly surface for air.

Shiny black cramp balls, growing on a felled log by one of the footpaths at Perton. Also called King Alfred’s cakes, coal fungus or carbon balls. A common bracket fungus growing on dead wood.