Pasque flower in one of the front gardens in East Castle Street, Bridgnorth. Although Easter has now passed while I delayed posting these pictures, they were actually taken very near the start of the month.
The garden, fronting the end house nearest the church, used to have two or three pasques with different coloured flowers out around Easter. This year when we went, this was the only one.
Coot patiently sitting on its nest, by the island in West Park lake. Because its probably brooding, it’s not doing much.
I went to look for the turtle, despite it being a cold morning. The turtle wasn’t there, but what may have been the mate of the brooding coot was.
Flowers on a box elder tree in the Castle Grounds Park, Bridgnorth. The tree is a native to north America, and also goes under several other names including the Manitoba maple.
Another bird beneficiary from the bird feeders in Castle Grounds Park, Bridgnorth. One the ground below, rather than the feeders themselves, a dunnock hunts among the wood chip mulch for any grains which have fallen down.
Monkey puzzle, or araucaria, a mature tree near the castle remains in the park at Bridgnorth. Near the top of the tree, one branch had a pair of flowers at the end.
The Castle Grounds Park in Bridgnorth isn’t very big, but among its attractions there’s a couple of sets of bird feeder stations. Here a blue tit was spending some time eating away at the variety of seeds which had been embedded in fat, all enclosed in a half coconut.