Wolves Wild

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.

Autumn colours: the dark red of a fallen maple leaf in Wightwick Manor garden.

Two male common darter dragonflies, each in flight partolling their territory on Wightwick Manor pond.

Reflection of a liquidambar tree, its leaves turning to autumn colours, seen in the still water of Wightwick Manor pond.