Wolves Wild

Mountain ash berries stand out because of their vivid colour.

A bee’s colouration very rarely works as camouflage. It almost did here.

More from the West Park stock of cacti. These are not the plants on public display in the Conservatory.

Moorhens are normally very timid. This one was eating, so let me get closer than normal.

This garden snail had parked itself on the side of a laundry basket.

Cross spiders become common in houses and gardens as autumn approaches.

This is the thousandth topic posted here — at least one, and normally more, per day for a little under two years.

A very common and persistent garden weed. In the upper picture the flowers are still buds; the lower is of flowers which are beginning to open.

Pattingham is just about visible on the skyline.

Also known as the hedge brown, this is Britain’s commonest butterfly.

These individuals, on the Saltwells LNR in Brierley Hill, were unusually cooperative.

The view looking towards the Wrekin (above) was taken in Bradley, Staffordshire. The corn field below was just outside Badger, Shropshire. Titterstone Clee and Brown Clee are just about visible on larger versions of the photo (click on picture to go to Flickr for these larger versions).