Wolves Wild

Two well-grown goslings on the beach / water bird feeding area by the old bridge at Bridgnorth. The parents, nearby, had the patchwork plumage of many of the geese there, the mark of crosses between greylags and feral farmyard birds.

Two common green shieldbugs (Palomena prasina) mating while standing on a leaf of a buddleia bush. They stayed with their rear ends pressed together for some time, though every time I went back to look at them they were standing on a different place on the leaf. Still in the same pose the last time I looked.

West Park Canada goose family of the two adult birds and their ten goslings crossing a path. Setting off after the young had been resting or grazing on a grassy area near the Conservatory, they were heading for the edge of the boating lake.

Some of the bees which were visiting alkanet flowers when they were at the height of their flowering season.

Swan family: pen, cob and two young cygnets, half-hidden in a reed bed on the edge of the canal at Castlecroft.

Emerald green colopurs on this demoiselle damselfly resting on a leaf in Compton Rough in the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve.