Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Contrasting views from a footpath across Sedgley Beacon. Urban sights of Wolverhampton city centre and the housing estates, factories and warehouses of the Black Country. Facing more to the west, rural south Staffordshire and Shropshire, and the ghostly bulk of the Wrekin on the horizon.
One of a small flock of long-tailed tits which were moving round rapidly in in an alder tree by the West Park boating lake.
The year’s first dandelion, or at least the first one I noticed. Growing on the Doxey Marsh Nature Reserve.
Small group of Sedgely Beacon carrion crows which landed, one to a tree, on the slender tree tops of a small birch plantation.
Icy margin of one of the pools formed by a widening of the brook through the nature reserve by the i54 industrial estate.
Magpie in some guttering at the edge of a roof, poised ready for take-off.