One Swallow>>>>>

It is true about the old Proverb "One Swallow doesn't make a Summer".

I took this on a day that the temperature had dropped again to about 10 celsius and it certainly didn't feel like Summer. 

Obviously its still Spring here and some days its nice weather and some like this day, not so nice.

With the wind chill where I took these images it was more like 7 celsius.

However, it is the first Swallow I have photographed this year and it was sitting quite nicely on a low wire.

Floral Easter

False Oxlip

Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower)

Cowslip

Wild Primrose 

Bluebell

Stitchwort

Wood Violet

Willow Catkins

Bluebell 

False Oxlip

Bluebell

Marsh Marigolds (King Cup)

Bluebell

Marsh Marigold

Gorse

Wild Primrose

False Oxlip

Marsh Marigold

Wild Primrose

Wood Violet

Wild Primrose

NB: If the term 'Easter' offends you, you will just have to get over it.

Birds with Blossom

I always try and photograph birds when they are perched amongst blossom.

Makes for a better surrounding I think.

My model on this occasion is a Goldfinch.

Brown Bird - Brown Butterfly

Images of a Chiffchaff that I shot in the last fews days and my first sighting of the year of the Speckled Wood Butterfly.

Mr Thrush

The Song Thrush is at its most vocal now and can be found singing away on exposed perches, usually quite high up in tall trees. I was quite fortunate with this one as it was lower and I was also on a bridge giving me a good vantage point for taking these shots.