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A great tit and a dunnock wait for a turn on the bird feeders in the Castle Grounds at Bridgnorth.

The red leaves of this pieris are this year’s growth: the colour is from growth hormone, which the shrub will recycle once its work is done. In front of one of the houses on East Castle Street, Bridgnorth.

A lone heron on the island of the upper pool at Perton. Perhaps the reason it isn’t with the others at the heronry is because it still an immature. It was hunched up with its back turned to a cold wind.

The Severn at Bridgnorth, in the aftermath of storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin last month. Two or three days after the flood waters had passed their peak and were already receding, the riverside footpath by the old bridge still under a foot or more of water.

Views from the bridge, and looking down from Castle Walk.

Hellebores flowering on neighbouring plants in the Castle Grounds park, Bridgnorth. Both hellebores. The pink-flowered variety with its flowers facing upwards; the white, as usual, with drooping stems so the flowers faced downwards.

Bridgnorth, end of last month. A warm, sunny morning with a promise of spring. Honey bees were out in force on the crocuses in the borders in Castle Grounds Park, very active and filling their pollen baskets very full.

The bees may have been some of those from the nest high in the stonework of the castle ruins.