Wolves Wild

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.

Poppy on its own flowering on the edge of Barley Field a few days ago.

Another visit to West Park to see the geese and young goslings featured here and here.

This time they were all swimming at the edge of the boating lake.

Bryony climbing to the top of a hedge on the Saltwells Nature Reserve in Quarry Bank.

From Toposcope Hill in Baggeridge Country Park the closest hills are the Clents.

The whale-back ridge of the Wrekin is distinctive.

The dome of the air traffic control radar on Brown Clee was just about visible through the heat haze the day this picture was taken.

Titterstone Clee.

The Long Mynd is … long.

The showy plumage of Britain’s smallest duck species.

Teal on West Park lake, pictured just before it went into eclipse.

Insect, apparently levitating in mid-air. It’s caught on a single strand of spider silk.

Water crowfoot, now flowering in the Birmingham Canal near Wolverhampton city centre.

The recent vandalism which has closed the Wolverhampton section of the canal to traffic while the lock was being repaired seems to have meant less disturbance for the vegetation growing in the water.