Coots are usually the first waterfowl to hatch chicks each year in West Park, and have the highest number of breeding pairs.
These were from a nest which must be particularly well placed, where the first chicks appear. It’s also right by the turtle’s favoured subathing perch
A pair of lesser black backed gulls on the pebbly beach at the upstream tip of the Bylet in the Severn at Bridgnorth. One bird seems to be brooding eggs on the pebbles; the other bird watching guard.
Wild garlic growing at the edge or one of the patches of woodland bordering the Railway Walk.
The West Park turtle stretched out in its usual sunbathing spot on a fallen log. Nearby, this time, a goose was sharing the log as it preened.
A female grey wagtail hopping from one exposed tone to another in the side-stream of the Severn created by the Bylet at Bridgnorth, hunting for insects.
Wallflowers flowering on a wall: the leaning stonework of the remains of Bridgnorth castle.