Videos

Male speckled wood butterflies try to control a woodland glade as territory, and fight off other males as they approach. If there are no other speckled woods around, they prefer to rest in the sun. A small garden with lots of trees and bushes makes a good substitute for a woodland glade.

Video of Canada geese feeding on the lake in West Park on Valentine’s Day.

Video of the birds feeding on seeds on a sunny day in mid-January.

Video of chaffinches, sparrows, robins and a blackbird getting seeds from a bird table in a Wolverhampton garden.

Birds need food and unfrozen water to get through big freezes like this winter.

Video of sparrows, blue tits and a robin all using a seed feeder.

Putting some food out regularly helps many garden birds survive hard spells like the present one.

This mechanical sculpture by Andy Plant should be a better known sight in Wolverhampton city centre.

Every hour, just after the top of the hour, it performs the routine videoed here on the Art Gallery balcony overlooking Lichfield Street.

Video of Canada geese, ducks and coots on the boating lake at West Park, Wolverhampton, the morning after the first light fall of snow.

A cross goose looks like it is drinking a lot of water as it swims on the partially frozen lake in West Park, Wolverhampton.

Video of geese, moorhens, coots and a mallard on the rapidly freezing lake in West Park yesterday.

Video of a heron fishing near to Compton lock on the Staffs and Worcs canal.

First a bumble bee and then a honey bee busily remove nectar from this flower.

Watch out for a small beetle on the blossom on the lower left of the picture in this video.

This butterfly feeding on a dandelion was my first go at doing video. As such, it is a good demonstration that hand-held close-ups at maximum zoom give a very shaky result.

Below is a still of the same individual at rest.