Wolves Wild

Heron stretching and crouching as it looks for prey in Spring Pool in Baggeridge Country Park.

It’s a regular hunting spot.

Alchemilla mollis’s broad leaves are often covered in droplets of water after rain.

This was one of the plants in the varied vegetation on the floor of the Doulton Claypit on the Saltwells Nature Reserve.

Wall of the Doulton Claypit at Saltwells Nature Reserve, an SSSI because it is an exposure of the Black Country Coal Measures.

Two of the grasses in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve’s Barley Field when they were flowering.

Speckled wood butterfly: this one had a territory near the fishing lake at Pool Hall.

Strong winds brought down most of the petals from West Park rhododendrons at the same time, leaving them covering the ground under the bush.

Iridescent blues and greens of a male beautiful demoiselle damselfly on a thistle in a field near the river Worfe at Worfield.

A mistlethrush in short grass with daisies in West Park.

As it walked around it gave both front and back views.

Flowers on one of the rose bushes where the Barley Field walks onto the Railway Walk in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Getting up close to one of the broom bushes, covered in flowers recently, on Netherton Hill.