Wolves Wild

Skipper butterfly which was feeding on lavender flowers at the end of July. A reminder of the summer which already seems so long ago.

Young moorhen swimming on the Smestow Brook just before the water bridge, intently staking things to eat and dipping its head in the water to strike.

The vivid reds of a Virginia creeper in autumn. This one is on the wall of the former lock keeper’s cottage at Wightiwick lock.

Bracket fungi growing on fallen branchesin Hawthorn Wood and Compton Rough.

Parasols: these large mushrooms have been having a good season. These were growing on a roadside patch of grass in Claverley.

Spikes of purple loosestrife growing by the canal, the flowers almost gone.