Wolves Wild

Shaggy parasol mushrooms usually grow to about eight or nine inches tall. This one was only about half that size.

A courgette in flower last month.

The pollen baskets of this bee looked like they were so full that she would be struggling to fly.

A magpie which spent some time feeding on someone’s front lawn on Tettenall Road.

One picture from its performance has already featured here.

Many butterflies, like this comma, have bodies which look furry enough to be mammalian.

An evening primrose which had succeeded in seeding itself behind the Conservatory at West Park.

A hoverfly gathering nectar. A few grains of pollen are sticking to its back.

The spikiness of this artichoke is a clue to the plant’s relationship to thistles.

There is quite a colony of teazels among the vegetation on the bank of the river Penk as it goes through Penkridge.

Here they are in flower, seen from the bridge which carries the Stafford road over the river.

A late brood of swallow chicks were still being fed by their parents a week or so back, in one of the barns at Mary Arden’s farm, Wilmcote.