A local walk proved that Spring has definitely arrived.
Red Campions and Greater Stitchwort can be found easily now along banks and hedgerows.
Even a few Bluebells are peeping through along the pathways that form part of a walk that I use.
I have heard a few male Blackcaps singing this year, but this was the first one that I was able to get a reasonable photo of.
Greater Stitchwort.
Lesser Celandine.
Bluebells
Not having a long lens with me on this occasion, I was unable to get close up shots of these Yellowhammers. I watched a number of them fly out from a tall hedgerow on to a cultivated field that had been recently sown. I didn't wish to disturb them by attempting a closer position. So these images are somewhat cropped.
Dunnocks are very active now in hedges and general woodland.
Hei Roy! mahtava postaus!
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful birds and flowers. Fantastisc photos!
Regards, Maria
Thank you so much Maria.
DeleteYou should publish more wildflower photos as you are as talented with floral photography as you are at bird photography.
ReplyDeleteAre the Blackcaps migratory where you are or are they around all year round? I think we have some of them and Chiffchaffs all year round here though we are further south of course. But then those two species are much less migratory than they used to be (or at least, like some common species, we get the northern ones during our winters and our ones go further south).
Thanks Mandy for those very kind words. Blackcaps are migratory, but we do have Chiffchaffs all the year around especially down here in the South West.
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