Wolves Wild

Just a sample of the different species of lichen covering the rocks overlooking the sea along the Coast Path in the west of Cornwall. Some were near St Ives, others above Sennen Cove.

Large carp in the pool at Morrab Garden in Penzance. Morrab Garden is a small park just a few minutes walk from the sea front, where a profusion of semi-tropical plants are thriving.

A bright patch of colurs harmonising together. The yellow of corn marigolds, red from poppies, cornflower blue and green of the leaves (of wormwood too in one of the pictures). All were growing together in the wldflower meadow of Bantock Park.

The flowers formed islands of colour in the sandier soil which had previously been bunkers on the Pitch and Putt course, among the more subdued tones of the many species of ripening grasses in the rest of the meadow.

A comma butterfly spreading its wings as it fed by the canal at Castlecroft. The comma which gives the species its name is just about visible on the underwing in the last picture.

Plants, including a mousetail and a fern, managing to cling on and grow on the bare granite of a wall in St Ives (the Cornish one).

Starlings gathering on the roofs of Topsham by the Exe estuary at sunset. Every so often a group of them would take off and form a mini-murmuration. Later they headed off to spend the night on the nearby reed beds.