This was the only bee I spotted among many various insects feeding on ivy flowers recently.
Flag iris seeds
Shield bug on an ivy leaf
Ivy flowers
West Park acers again
These views were taken about a week later than the previously posted pictures of some of the West Park Japanese acers. In that short time, the leaf colours had developed rapidly.
Another Chicken of the woods
As a follow-up to the pictures of the chicken of the woods fungus growing by Wolverhampton ring road
posted earlier this month, here is another on a tree at the side of the Birmingham New Road, just by the junction with the Black Country Route.
Wasps feeding on ivy flowers
Fly feeding on ivy
St Peters church at dawn
Views of St Peter’s church just before dawn recently. The first and third pictures were taken from West Park, looking (roughly) east and towards the direction where the sun would shortly rise.
This view from Lichfield Street was taken as close as I could get to the same interval before sunrise a couple of days later. The effect of looking into the cold northerly light was exaggerated because there was no cloud to catch the red glow of the still-concealed sun this time.