mass hatch

despite the long cold period, there has been a mass hatch of frog spawn in the last few days. These tadpoles are mostly still in clumps, I guess because they are feeding off the last remnants of the protein in their egg sacs.

catkin cascade

making up for lost time, the wood anenomes are coming out with the water dogs and daffodils

there at last

well, that didn't take long.

almost there

a bit more warmth and our native daffodils will be out, meanwhile Spot and Harriet are practising a concept quite new to them, cooperation.

even more browner things

Has Spring failed? Not quite. In fact when we looked back over Spot's private archives going back to 2000, several Springs have been like this, although never so dry. And if you are wondering how long a sparrow might stay on a feeder full of peanuts larger than the mesh, I know a man who has an answer.

the great escape

"don't worry lambkin it is only a car full of dogs".

No one knows to whom these runaways belong. It looked very like the morning school run.