Spring 2024

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With winter receding into past memory, the meadow is still wet and muddy in places after the wettest February on record. As temperatures rise the first warm sunny days brought out a few brimstone butterflies. Birdsong is increasing as birds seek mates and form territories. The flooding kept the resident swans off the pond but receding water levels have allowed the swans back to their nesting site where they have been busy repairing last years nest.

Primroses and cowslips are coming into flower and trees into leaf. The pollen laden pussy willows are attracting the hardy bumble bees which seem to fly in very cool conditions. Spring is on the way.