Wolves Wild

View across one of the unforested areas on the Cannock Chase high ground. The bright green ground cover is whinberry; the white may be bog cotton – I didn’t get close enough for an identification.

Some of the large carp in the lake at West Park.

I’ve been visiting the park for many years, and never noticed them before.

On a warm day recently there were at least a dozen of them in a shallow sunny patch.

View up the final section of the long drive to Chillington Hall. The gentle curves of the landscape owe as much to Capability Brown as to nature.

Flower of a tree peony growing on the bank of Town Pool, Badger.

Wind-dispersed seeds caught in a cobweb.

A bilberry (or whinberry) shrub caught just before the last red flowers went over. The shrub can be spotted to the left of the dead tree in this picture.

Lady’s smock growing right at the edge of the canal at Compton.

Somewhat nibbled garden violet.

Long-horned cows, calves and a bull grazing at the end of the avenue at Chillington Hall.

When I was there, there were still bluebells in the woods.

The bull was paying attention to those cows which didn’t have calves.

Mass of horsetails growing tightly together, forming a miniature forest a few inches high.

Heron watching over a nest at Pendeford Mill LNR on its open day last month. One of the pair previously featured here.

Dandelions so thick in a field that I thought they looked like they were the crop.