Snowdrops of hope & a focus on crocus

There was a hope of spring on the wing on Sunday morning, as I stumbled across this field of snowdrops and crocuses (crocii?). It will be with us in three weeks for real, although this week it's been a battle between sunshine and light snow flurries so far. The promise of 12°C by next weekend seems a long way off from here ;-)

As well as flowers on the ground we saw scurrying pheasants along a country lane and stationery herons on the water. Overhead we spotted woodpeckers, and heard their resonating pecking from across the wood, while skylarks swooped over ploughed fields.

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