Sometimes the smallest things can give great pleasure. For example, our current hunt for Nature's 'firsts' of the year - first primrose in flower, first chiffchaff song, and so on - has produced some memorably joyous moments, as today at Littleferry when we found, on the links, the first....
....wild pansy flower, a tiny splash of colour in an otherwise drab landscape. Soon, there will be thousands in flower and we'll hardly take any notice of them.
It was just as well we found the pansy because, despite some impressively grey cumulus just inland, a pleasant walk in the sun produced nothing else new, though....
....the local eider had gathered just offshore from the mouth of Loch Fleet to perform their annual mating rituals.
Elsewhere there was another 'first' when we spotted cowslips in flower below the path from the village up to the Council offices, a plant which we've found nowhere else locally so suspect that it was introduced.
Otherwise, Spring creeps up on us slowly. Of the butterfly world we have seen only three species so far, tortoiseshell, peacock - seen here on a cultivated heather in flower in our garden today - and a white of indeterminate species.
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