Wolves Wild

From the same bushes as the buds in the previous post, fatsia flowers in their clusters growing on spikes.

Fatsia – one of its other names is the false castor oil plant – is an exotic which flowers in the middle of winter.

Here are the as yet unopened flower buds from a bush in West Park.

These birds were part of a flock of about thirty starlings which were busily eating at the edge of a playing field until a car drove by and disturbed them.

Pair of swans on the canal at Swindon, swimming towards me in the hope of being fed.

View from a path heading up Sedgley Beacon, looking back with the buildings of Wolverhampton city centre forming the skyline.

View from the footbridge by the ford across the Smestow at Trescott. The stream was fairly full the day I took the picture.

Trees, mostly leafless for winter, reflected in the gently rippling water of the new pool in Compton Park on a sunny day.

Oak tree with its leaves in autumn brown. The Mount Hotel on Tettenhall ridge is just visible on the skyline.

Wetland Lake is usually clear and placid. On a windy day last week, the surface was covered in rippling waves and the water was turbid with the mud which normally forms the bottom of the pool.

A wooded ridge rising above the canal between Swindon and Hinksford, with one of the sheep which were grazing in the field between.