Spring has Sprung - 2024

[slowworm]

Another, rare, dry day after a load of rain. Took a couple of quick pics this evening.

Female oil beetle digging her nest:




And a nuc of eager honey bees:

 

[Pattree]

Yep. The food waste in the compost bin is going down instead of up. It’s Spring!

 

[Woody girl]

While I'm looking out the window at a hail storm watching the roofs and ground turn white!

 

[Pattree]

While I'm looking out the window at a hail storm watching the roofs and ground turn white!

Yep. Sitting in my bay window next to a radiator and watching the sleet hammering on the window. Cosy? Certainly. Spring? Possibly!

I was just about to take the brushwood cutter out and clear the path ready for the Easter Bunny on Sunday. Look out for the wabbit in wellies.

 

[Broch]

A lovely day here today - a couple of hours in the wood just enjoying the sights and sounds. The chiffchaffs have finally arrived.

The carpets of wood anemone were a delight,



Then, I spend time looking close

Wild gooseberry flowers:



Wych Elm flower and seed:




The exquisite Larch flower:

 

[Woody girl]

Presently sitting underneath torrential rain and a thunderstorm, .......did somebody mention spring? I'm still waiting!

 

[GreyCat]

We had the thunderstorm on Friday. Today has been a whole dry day (whisper it) and warm in the sun if you could get out of the wind. Pottered in the garden at the new place (=building site) today, did lots of little jobs, but everything still very boggy underfoot.

GC

 

[bobnewboy]

At dusk today we noticed the first pair of bats of the year circling in the gathering gloom, in the southern lee of the house. I’m exceedingly unlikely to be able to photograph any of them, but they are certainly very active.

 

[TLM]

What is this Springy thing you all are talking about, the forecast is for lots of snow for tonight.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Heard the first nightingale of the year yesterday, quite a few more in the garden today. We were flooded last weekend, nearly a meter of water in the house, Mercifully we are in spring, so can have the doors & windows wide open to help the drying. It's going to take months though.

 

[Marcus2]

Spotted the first Swallows yesterday.

 

[Woody girl]

High wind warnings tonight.
Had a gust earlier in the evening that actualy blew my 750 yamaha motorbike off its stand onto its side. !!!
Dustbin halfway down the street, bike storm shelter, (up and over, umbrella type thing, ) down the bottom of the drive, and in a bit of a mess. Roped it to the metal garden railings, and will sort it all out tomorrow morning.
Phew, what a panic!
Presently deathly quiet and still outside. Feels quite eerie after all that noise and bluster.

 

[Broch]

First hedgehog! A large one trying to walk in through the back door when I opened it!

 

[Woody girl]

There is a funny shiny yellow thing in the sky!!!!!!
It's not wet!!!!!!
I replaced my thermal top with a normal t shirt... and I was warm!!!!!
What's happening??????

 

[Pattree]

[quote
@Woody girl What's happening?????? /quote]

Drought, thirst, heatstroke. The same old doom as for the rain but dryer.

 

[Broch]

Drought, thirst, heatstroke. The same old doom as for the rain but dryer.

?

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Forget spring, summer made an appearance today & it's too blooming hot !

 

[slowworm]

First hedgehog! A large one trying to walk in through the back door when I opened it!

Do you get many badgers? I've not seen a hedgehog here and think we would be an ideal place for them but we do get loads of badgers.I

Sun came out yesterday and along with the adult lizards I was glad to see several of last years babies, I had worried the wet winter would have killed them off.

Saw several more oil beetles and, one of my favourites, a dung beetle.

 

[Marcus2]

Heard my first Cuckoo yesterday,same spot as last year on Bodmin Moor.

 

[Chris]

Heard my first Cuckoo yesterday,same spot as last year on Bodmin Moor.

There must be a clock there.