Wolves Wild

Bryony berries ripening, turning from green, through yellow to red. These were on a plant growing in the hedge by the towpath at Castlecroft.

It’s been a good year for parasols, some of our largest mushrooms. These shaggy parasols were growing in a group on a patch of grass in Finchfield, and a single large specimen – the cap well over a foot in diameter – near the lock at Compton.

One of the cobs on West Park lake, seeming to thrust with every muscle in its body as it twisted its neck to preen its feathers, then dipped under the water for a rinse.

Reeds growing at the edge of the canal at Wightwick, the seeds just beginning to ripen.

Red admiral and a peacock butterfly feeding on some of the last flowers on a buddleia. The red admiral was unworried very close by; the peacock (last two pictures) was as near, but kept moving so that it was facing away from me, half-hidden by the flower it was eating from

Bright red fruit on an ornamental crab apple growing by the stream in the Poolhouse section of the Wom Brook LNR.