It must be Spring

Toddy

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Jan 21, 2005
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BR, that's a beautiful photograph :D

Spring like here today too :D
Lots of little birds doing their courtship 'chase me, feed me' type displays too. Reed buntings noisily cheeping away :)

M
 

Elen Sentier

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Certainly Springlike today


Honey bee flying to snowdrop by British Red, on Flickr

That is a stunning shot !!!

On the spring front, we've had robins courting here for 3 weeks; the tits are doing their mating call; we had the sparrowhawk hunting our bottom hedge this afternoon and she made a kill; we saw the first abay rabbit of the year this morning; a heron flew over this afternoon; the bulbs are all coming up; the lungwort has been flowering since December. And this afternoon it even smelled of spring :).
 

Macaroon

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Jan 5, 2013
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Definitely a competition shot there, that's a cracker! It's been a perfect day here too, and a much-needed tonic................
 

British Red

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Dec 30, 2005
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Glad you liked it :) Two of our hives are doing very well indeed. I fear the third may not survive the Winter - but we knew it was a weak colony. We may combine it anyway if it makes it through.
 

daveO

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Jun 22, 2009
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Saw a skylark displaying today, lots of spring flowers around, celandines, dandelion, primroses and there's definitely leaves showing on some trees already. I even saw my first bumblebee out and about.
 

treadlightly

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Jan 29, 2007
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Lots of daffodils on my walk today. it really feels like spring is here now.

One thing though, unless we get some frost in the next few weeks it will be a whole winter without any, in the south east at least, which I can't remember ever happening before. It will be biting beastie central come summer:mosquitos:
 

Haggis

Nomad
It was -25C here this morning, and there is yet well over a meter of snow on the ground; far more in the drifted places. The frost, so they are telling us, has reached more than 2 meters in depth this year. Spring is very many weeks away,,,
 

Paddytray

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Jul 11, 2012
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I think we have proof that Spring is here


Ramsom 03-02-14 by British Red, on Flickr

The Ramsoms are up :)

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Mandos

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Jan 23, 2013
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i was also in the woods on sunday and out of curiosity checked to see if the sap had risen on a plantation of silver birch to my disbelief it had and will be going back this weekend to get some more :eek:

Mandos
 

MartiniDave

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Aug 29, 2003
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I had a pair of Goldcrests flitting about in the garden over the weekend, looking at a nice mossy fork in a tree. I'm hoping they nest.

Dave
 

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