Wolves Wild

One of the features of Bridgnorth which many visitors miss is the half-dozen or so set of steps connecting the riverside to High Town, formerly important in joining the upper town to the busy port on the river. Stoneway Steps run close by the Cliff Railway. They srart beside the lower station of the Railway, pass the Theatre on the Steps, and continue in their deep cutting in the sandstone cliffs to emerge between the top end of Cartway and the Railway’s upper station/

Beside the steps, the bare sandstone walls of the cutting provde a home for damp and shade-loving plants like this crescent-cup liverwort.

White cherry blossom against a blue spring sky. These on one of the trees in the Castle Grounds at Bridgnorth, seen on a blustery morning.

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.