Wolves Wild

This small web was (more or less) horizontal in the long grass of Barley Field in the Smestow Valley LNR.

The heavy dew showed it was built up of a complex network of filaments, not the traditional radial and concentric circles pattern.

A plant growing in someone’s front garden: it just caught my eye.

This clover, just about to open, was pictured in the early morning after a heavy dew.

No dew visible on these two open flowers, though they were taken at the same time and place.

It would be an attractive plant if it could be tamed from its very fast growth. Instead it smothers almost anything in its path.

One warm afternoon recently, the flowers on a pyracanthus bush were a magnet for bees. Two or three different insects are represented in this series.

Common growing in grass at this time of year – there are also more ornate garden varieties.

The flowers of this wayside weed are tiny. In this close-up the hooked hairs which make the plant sticky can be seen.

The whiteness of the petals is not an effect of a badly-exposed photo. That’s how the flower looked to the naked eye.

One of the largest mushroom species which can be seen locally, and quite common. These are fairly mature specimens. The roughness on the cap which gives the species its name is not always so pronounced.

Garden poppies pictured on a cloudy early morning after heavy overnight rain (above), and on a sunny midday (the opened blooms and the bud below).

These were big mushrooms similar to the field mushroom, so they were probably horse mushrooms. I couldn’t get up very close to check, so they could have been another related species. Some of these are poisonous.

They were growing just over the wall from Tettenhall Road in the grounds of Linden House (the former Masonic Hall).

Along the driveway directly opposite the recently vandalised Lodge.