Spring is taking its time. It seems in no hurry this year, as if it knows that winter still has a bite - so we've only now found the first dog violets growing on a sunny bank and....
....this morning we found, in the pine plantation, the first two wood sorrel flowers of the year.
With the flowers out the bees are appearing, though still in very small numbers even though we've been enjoying some brighter and warmer weather.
This is the queue for breakfast in our back garden, mostly chaffinches but we also have siskins and goldfinches, all rather wary because....
....Harry the sparrowhawk is back, often to be found lying in wait in his favourite location, where he can see the small birds but they can't see him.
It's always good to see the local gang of long-tailed tits, always cheerful, always chatty, but it's so sad to find only three again, when they should be going round in flocks of eight and more.
At least this was a cheering sight - the first rabbit we've seen out in the fields in in ages, and it was in the big Rabbit Field where we saw dozens playing last summer.
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