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OK, probably not the very first one, even locally. But the first bluebells were coming out in ones and twos a couple of days ago in the unexpectedly warm weather. This one was in the woods behind Northycote Farm.

I’d just crossed over into south Staffordshire when I heard the sound of the sound of the Goodyear balloon, heading to fly straight overhead..  The skyline is in the vicinity of Lower Penn.

Seen in a pool on one of the Wolverhampton allotments over the weekend. The frogspawn is already so well developed that the beginnings of the tadpole shape can be seen.

Perhaps the water snails are enjoying a glut of food.

Thanks to Barbara and Tony.

The buds of this year’s leaves can also be made out on the out of focus twigs.

A view of the lock on the Staffs & Worcs canal, early on a recent, misty morning.

The trees were only two or three times as far away as the remains of the umbellifer, but they were almost disappearing in the post-dawn mist by the Staffs & Worcs canal.