Wolves Wild

The fine old wisteria growing on the Mermaid on Bridgnorth Road flowering.

Another pair of swans with one of their (several) cygnets. These were on the fishing pool at Pool Hall.

Bluebells growing under the narrow band of trees at the edge of the long drive at Chillington Hall.

Closer view of two of the cygnets on Perton Pool which featured yesterday, chasing the bread that someone was throwing to them.

“Tails” of sycamore flowers hanging from a twig. Like much this year, they are later than normal.

Swan, probably the pen, with young cygnets on the large pool at Perton. The other parent had just chased away two Canada geese, which must have got too close to the chicks.

Like most other plants, the bad weather has delayed hawthorn flowering this year. Now spring has finally arrived, everything is out in a rush.

This oak apple, on a tree on the edge of Barley Field, can only have started developing very shortly before the picture was taken. Perhaps it is this colouring which gives these galls the “apple” tag.

Female orange tip butterfly resting on a nettle leaf.

Only the males have the distinctive orange tip on their wings.

Tip of a young fern, its leaves beginning to spread. Threads of spider silk were catching the sunlight.

Buzzard rising on a thermal on its first flight of the day at Pendeford Mill.

Starling prospecting the recently-mown grass by a pedestrian crossing for food.