Wolves Wild

A little further uphill than the pike in the previous post, there is an equally attractive swan on the nest decorating the finger post.

This year’s Christmas special is one of a pair of wallabies spotted at an “animal adventure” near the start of the Stafford Road.

When photographed in mid-January, they seemed contented despite the harsh winter, if not as smug as the larger than life camel below.

Whenever I have been passing more recently, the kangaroos have continued to look contented.

Merry Christmas!

This stream through a wooded section of Sutton Park is far too straight to be convincing.

A lesser black backed gull balancing on one leg on the rail around the West Park boating lake.

The toadstool with the colours of Christmas can sometimes be found on the edge of Wolverhampton city centre. These fly agarics grow near a birch tree and almost hidden among canes on the corner of Darlington Street and the ring road.

This butterfly was feeding on the flowers in a thistle patch in Sutton Park back in the summer. I had walked most of the way round the park before I saw it, so I didn’t have the energy to wait for it to give me a fuller view of the wings, and so a better chance of working out the species.

Three views of the same unidentified mushroom growing in woodland leaf litter.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly false chanterelle

At the end of November it came on to rain just before sunset was due. The result was the biggest and most spectacular rainbow I have ever seen. These pictures do not do it justice. Apart from being large, and practically a complete semi-circle, at its peak it was a triple bow. Apart from the brightest main bow, the colours appeared in reversed order just inside the main bow, and more faintly a little distance further out.

These were some of fly agarics growing on a grassy bank with birch trees right by the main road in Wordsley.