Wolves Wild

Female orange tipbutterflies – not a trace of orange on them – resting on nettle leaves and jack by the hedge flowers.

Flower buds and flowers almost open on different holly bushes.

Daddy-long-legs spider on its web, on a chair. This is a spider, not a harvestman (eight legs but not a spider, also called a daddy-long-legs), nor yet a cranefly (insect, six legs and wings, once again called a daddy-long-legs).

Female mallard with two recently hatched ducklings, tip of the Bylet, Bridgnorth. One duckling was swimming in the current as if jet propelled, hawking for flies. The other one pictured was sleeping on the island, just like mother. A third duckling appeared after I put the camera away.

Crowd of bees gathering by a crack high in the remains of Bridgnorth Castle, almost certainly their home.

Horses in a field by the canal at Castlecroft. They always seem to be eating when I’m down that way.