No words today. Only quiet skies and a land growing warm and bright.
Tag: spring
March in flower
It’s spring, so time to give this old blog a clean and bring some colour onto the pages. For March, I’m going to be looking at our wild plants as they gradually blink open. And I couldn’t resist starting with this: cherry blossom giving breakfast to a greenfinch!
The greenfinch is almost as much of a surprise as the blue sky. These beautiful birds used to be abundant here but trichomonosis – a disease spread by a protozoan – caused their numbers to crash. Good hygiene at bird tables can help prevent its spread.
Spring-shine
The world is alive, and it is very beautiful.
Bluebell – Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Cuckooflower – Cardamine pratensis
Wood-sorrel – Oxalis acetosella
Toothwort – Lathraea squamaria
Wild cherry – Prunus avium
Hedgerow blossoming