Spring has Arrived - in Northen Mid-Wales

[Broch]

I know we are a couple of weeks behind the Southern Counties but spring is finally here!

Sitting out with coffee this morning I heard our first Cuckoo today; not just the first this year but the first for twenty years in this location. A blackcap was singing his heart out from the top of one of the ash trees sounding like a tuneful demented budgerigar

In the wood a wren is nesting in the tree bog screen, a woodcock has laid four eggs under a sprawling broom, and I found badger cub footprints in the clay.

Wood sorrel, lesser celandine and wild strawberry (Potentilla sterilis, barren strawberry unfortunately) are all in flower, and the Larch is in flower and the little shaving-brush leaves/needles have emerged

 

[daveO]

It's been like summer here today. I heard my first cuckoo and saw the first topless chav of the year. There needs to be a spring points system so you know when it's fully here.

First Daffodil - 1 point
First bumblebee - 2 points
First swallow - 5 points
First Cuckoo - 6 points
First topless chav - 8 points

 

[fenix]

Hopefully this works. No sound at the moment, need to record some nice garden sounds without the drone of lawnmowers.

 

[Nomad64]

First cuckoo today as well - a week earlier than last year!

 

[daveO]

It's official. I overheard someone saying it's too hot. That's got to be 20 points. Spring is finally here.

 

[Bishop]

Another scorchio! day down here in Carmarthen, fingers crossed for tomorrow. Bag packed for a bimble

 

[Nomad64]

It's official. I overheard someone saying it's too hot. That's got to be 20 points. Spring is finally here.

That would have been me - in my defence, I’ve been wearing chainsaw trousers all afternoon!

We seem to have gone from mid-winter to mid-summer in a week.