Wolves Wild

Bright red ripening crabapples on a tree at the back of Compton Lock. They look very tempting, but appearances are sometimes deceiving.

Buzzrd circling as is rises on a thermal behind the Toposcope, Baggereidge Country Park.

Two of a crop of roll-rim mushrooms growing on a front lawn.

Swan family: adult pair and one well-grown cygnet, heading away along the canal. They weren’t fleeing me, but a narrowboat leaving the Newbridge mooring.

Arion-species slug by the footpath across Compton Rough, red apart from the head which was black.

Weeping polypore, a bracket fungus which exudes a fluid from pores in its surface. This one, seen from above, below and the side, was on a fallen tree trunk in Himley Plantation.