Wolves Wild

Flowers on one of the rose bushes where the Barley Field walks onto the Railway Walk in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Getting up close to one of the broom bushes, covered in flowers recently, on Netherton Hill.

Beautiful demoiselle damselfly which was on its side on the surface of a country road near Wyken. Just after this picture was taken, it managed to right itself and fly off.

Unidentified small moth on vegetation by the towpath near Castlecroft.

This young robin came hopping very close to me early one morning.

The leaves of a patch of mallow growing by the canal at Compton, doubled by reflection in the water.

Goslings searching the ground for something to eat – most of them from a seated position.

The birds had been swimming in the boating lake
just a few minutes earlier.

Gall forming on the under-surface of a leaf on an oak tree on the edge of Barley Field.

Flowers growing on elders by the canal near Castlecroft.

A closer view of the florets.

Flowers high on one of the bushes seen from below.

Globe waterlilies flowering in a section of the Birmingham Canal very near to the water crowfoot pictured a couple of days ago.

Spider on a garden rosebud, waiting for prey to come along.

Bee performing acrobatics to get at all the pollen in a dog rose on a bush in Barley Field.