Chickweed, flowering under a hedge earlier this month.
Greens: oak flowers opening
Tassels of flowers emerging from their covering on an oak tree last month.
Greens: oak leaf buds
Oak leaf buds just beginning to open, on the same tree as the flowers in the next post and seen at the same time.
Peacock butterfly spreading wings in sun
Peacock butterfly, first one I’ve seen this spring, resting on a dandelion flower and spreading its wings to warm itself in the morning sunshine.
Clump of white dead nettles, flowering
A patch of dead nettle was growing and displaying its white flowers in the middle of a large area of true nettle by the side of Compton Park pool recently.
Longhorn calf gambolling
It’s lambs that are supposed to gambol. There were some in the next field, just calmly feeding, on grass and one ewe’s milk. Instead, it was this English longhorn calf which was running around leaping in the air.