Wolves Wild

Fluffy duckling on the pool of a small park in the southern French coastal resort of Cassis.

Young moorhen chick swimming out into the middle of the canal at Compton, watched over by one of the parents.

Mass of young cross spiders huddling together in a web. The spiderlets had disappeared by the next morning, together with almost all evidence of the web.

Colour matching between a bee’s livery and the flowers of a buddleia growing wild near Compton Lock.

Unidentified insect resting on the leaf of a hawthorn bush.

Flower of a canalside reed. A single thread of spider silk is connecting the stem to the nearest leaf.

Frog which came under cover, apparently to shelter, during a recent heavy shower.

Heron taking care of its feathers.

The bird was on the deserted playing fields of Smestow School, as seen from the canal towpath.

Blue-tailed damselfly resting on the seed-head of a poolside reed.

Wild roses flowering on a bush growing on the edge of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Coot feeding a chick on West Park lake.

This is either the ones shown here, or here.

Several coot pairs living on the lake seem to have had breeding successes this year, but each just with a single chick.

Single moorhen chick together with one parent.

They were swimming and feeding on the canal near Compton.