The livestock isn’t just insects at the Stratford on Avon Tropical Butterfly Farm. This watchful iguana is one of a pair which sometimes show themselves.
Blewits on woodland floor
Blewits, mushrooms which can still be spotted growing into the winter, and a favourite with wild food enthusiasts. When young, they have a faint colour which some guidebooks decribe as blueish – it looks more lilac to me. These may have been wood blewits, as they were on woodland floor.
Young heron wading in Avon
Young heron at what seems to be a favoured spot, wading in the Avon at Stratford and catching small fish.
Anglers’ Pool, Fowler’s Park
Looking very tranquil for a Wolverhampton city centre site, Anglers’ Pool in Fowler’s Park recently.
Tufted ducks, female and male, West Park
Pair of tufted ducks on the lake at West Park, with their characteristic tufts of feathers at the back of the head. Although their plumages are almost monochrome, the male’s is as in many species, easier to spot with its bright white area.
Butterfly Farm: Spider eating butterfly
Stratford on Avon Tropical Butterfly Farm: a (presumably local) spider eating a butterfly caught in its web.