Wolves Wild

Butterfly, a large white / cabbage white, resting on the folded-up white flower of a bindweed.

Whisps of the as yet very unripe seed of old man’s beard, which will not start looking like white whiskers until the winter.

Shield bug, seen from below through a dirty window. It seems to be eating the algae which have built up on the window.

Female banded demoiselle dragonfly: the females have colours which make them harder to spot than the males. This one was resting on canalside nettles in the same area near Castlecroft as the male featured yesterday.

Young magpie with dishevelled plumage up in a tree in West Park, sending occasional wary glances in my direction and all around as it preens and smooths its feathers.

Male banded demoiselle dragonfly on the lookout by the canal near Castlecroft at the end of last month. It kept landing on leaves of ivy growing in the hedge, occasionally varying by landing on a nettle leaf instead.