Wolves Wild

This pink blossom was in the pool in Hickman Park. The same flower features in both pictures.

The white flowers were on the pool which is near the footpath/cycle route connecting Fallings Park with the city centre.

This young heron was fishing by the Staffs & Worcs canal near the racecourse. When it saw me, it started to retreat by walking down the towpath instead of flying away.

This flower patch is by a path next to the river Severn in Bridgnorth, marking the site of the foundry where Richard Trevithick’s Locomotive Catch me who can was built.

Views of the Clee Hills from a mile or so east of the Severn.

This fungus formed a mound-like structure yards from the Albert Road entrance to West Park.

CORRECTION, August 2013. This is NOT a sulfur polypore, but rather the not very similar looking giant polypore.

I was stone cold sober when I made the misidentification.

Pictures of this year’s return of the fungus to be posted soon.

Compare the colour to that of the frog featuring a few days ago, whose picture was taken in almost the same spot.

A common sight in hedgerows in the early autumn, a wild arum with its distinctive bright red berries on the end of an erect stalk.

A large bracket fungus seen from below (top) and just about from above.

This bird, probably a well-grown chick, was one of a family of great created grebes on a large pool by the Marsh lane LNR in Hampton in Arden, Solihull.

This pair were on Swan Pool, Sandwell Valley, a week or so later.

One of the same pair, which has just caught a fish.

The pair’s three young chicks. They are much younger than the bird in the first picture – perhaps a second brood.

The plant which inspired George de Mestral to invent Velcro.