Early spring where you are?

[GreenmanBushcraft]

It is here. I have seen daffs and primroses out now since late December in some places! Blackthorn already in full leaf too.

It just doesn't feel right. I like the seasons to be seasons, but recently it all seems to become a blur.

Kris

 

[JohnL]

the papers the otherday said that from now on there are going to be no more winters in England, it is going to go strait from Autumn to Spring.
There are nettles coming up round where I live. Cooked some up last night. Good to have, but I also would like more defined seosons.

 

[JDCP]

I just photographed a Peacock butterfly in the back garden...unfortunately I'm too thick to figure out how to stick it on this post (the photo not the butterfly).

 

[eraaij]

Here in The Netherlands, spring is in the air too. Soft weather and lots of leaves starting to unfold. Weird.

-Emile

 

[Tor helge]

Spring!?
Up here it`s just the middle of winter.
Not as cold as usual though .

Tor

 

[Matt Weir]

Today was absolutely the first day of spring here

 

[Lucyc]

Same over here - was thinking exactly the same earlier.

 

[Arth]

I've seen blackthorn in flower. leaves on hawthorn and honey suckle

 

[British Red]

No question about it Spring is here - Blackthorn is out,, gooseberries and rhubarb are in leaf, now for a bit more Bushcrafty evidence try these Wood Ant nests today

The primroses are out

And the violets

I'm surprised you have seen blackthorn in leaf Kris - I have seen plenty in flower but no leaves yet here

Red

 

[JonnyP]

Plenty of blackthorn out here and the leaves are just starting to come out....

 

[jojo]

The blackthorn is in flower here in Suffolk too. Daffodils are out too. I saw a butterfly this morning in the graveyard in Burgh Castle. And loads of spiderlings ballooning this morning along the Waveney river.

 

[British Red]

Blimey so they are Jon - its amazing how different these things are a few hundred miles apart!

 

[JonnyP]

Blimey so they are Jon - its amazing how different these things are a few hundred miles apart!

Too right, but it was just a few leaves sprouting. I like you am surprised that Kris has leaves out over in essex, but then again with the seasons being as they are and a tree in a warm sheltered spot..............

 

[Tengu]

You must live in a funny place...

I have seen hazel lambstails, but nothing more than you would see at this season

also snowdrops croci and members of the primulas....but no wild primroses, just the cultivated sort that bloom all winter anyway.

 

[beach bum]

I live alongside a wood here in the outskirts of Cardiff and there has been the tapping of a Woodpecker every day since Friday.

Time to think of tapping myself , only I'll be tapping a Birch.


regards

beach bum

 

[JonnyP]

I live alongside a wood here in the outskirts of Cardiff and there has been the tapping of a Woodpecker every day since Friday.

Time to think of tapping myself , only I'll be tapping a Birch.


regards

beach bum

The tapping of the woodpecker is the male greater spotted. If you get a bit of wood and tap against a tree to imitate the woodpeckers tapping, it will often attrack it to come closer to you, thinking your a rival male on his patch...