Wolves Wild

Carrion crow searching in the grass by the towpath near Wightwick, searching for dropped bread which had been intended for the ducks.

Young swallow, one of a small group perched on telegraph wires outside Lower Penn, socialising together.

Mouth open to vocalise …

and grooming.

Male damsel fly resting in grass by the river Worfe at Worfield.

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Yellow waterlilies just beginning to flower. These were growing on the fishing lake at Pool Hall.

Heron stretching and crouching as it looks for prey in Spring Pool in Baggeridge Country Park.

It’s a regular hunting spot.

Alchemilla mollis’s broad leaves are often covered in droplets of water after rain.

This was one of the plants in the varied vegetation on the floor of the Doulton Claypit on the Saltwells Nature Reserve.

Wall of the Doulton Claypit at Saltwells Nature Reserve, an SSSI because it is an exposure of the Black Country Coal Measures.

Two of the grasses in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve’s Barley Field when they were flowering.

Speckled wood butterfly: this one had a territory near the fishing lake at Pool Hall.

Strong winds brought down most of the petals from West Park rhododendrons at the same time, leaving them covering the ground under the bush.

Iridescent blues and greens of a male beautiful demoiselle damselfly on a thistle in a field near the river Worfe at Worfield.

A mistlethrush in short grass with daisies in West Park.

As it walked around it gave both front and back views.