Wolves Wild

Some of the lupins in flower in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust property, New Place, in Stratford on Avon.

One of the West Park magpies, by the edge of the boating lake after taking a drink of the water, then on the fence at the edge of the lake.

Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.

The bright orange and yellow of hawkbit flowers contrasting with the green of a lawn in the background, noticed in passing in someone’s front garden.

Bee orchids, the flowers mimicking the insects they attract to pollinate them, growing earlier today in the Wren’s Nest, the national nature reserve in the heart of the Black Country.

Red-headed cardinal beetle sunbathing on a leaf. They are quite fond of sunbathing. When they are doing it, the contrast between their red colour and the green of the leaves they are on makes them easy to spot.