Reeds growing at the edge of the canal at Wightwick, the seeds just beginning to ripen.
Red admiral and peacock butterflies on buddleia flowers
Red admiral and a peacock butterfly feeding on some of the last flowers on a buddleia. The red admiral was unworried very close by; the peacock (last two pictures) was as near, but kept moving so that it was facing away from me, half-hidden by the flower it was eating from
Red crab apples, Wom Brook LNR
Bright red fruit on an ornamental crab apple growing by the stream in the Poolhouse section of the Wom Brook LNR.
Mushrooms under yew tree, West Park
Mushrooms, species unidentified though their appearance is distinctive, growing under and possibly associated with one of the yew trees in West Park.
Deceptive appearances: Wom Brook
These rural-looking pictures of a stream are nto what they appear. They are of a section of the Wom Brook LNR in Wombourne where the houses of the Poolhouse estate come up so close that careful composition was needed to keep evidence of the estate out of the pictures.
Buzzard rising on thermal, Castlecroft
One of the Smestow valley buzzards, this time rising on a thermal over the fields between Castlecroft and the canal.