After hearing reports of spring finally arriving in woodlands throughout the country, I was impatient for it to arrive in the woods Sybil and I walk daily. The bluebells had been biding their time with just their leaves above ground for awhile, since the last snow fell in fact. Over the last couple of days just one or two had started to come into flower, however today the majority of the plants on the sunnier slopes of the wood were flowering.
It's nice to finally see leaves on the trees, too; last year the leaves had started coming out in March! The chiffchaffs were singing, as they have been for a couple of weeks now in this wood. We headed straight up through the wood, then up and round to the Wickersley side, where the wild garlic was just starting to come into flower.
The smell was delicious, and we loitered a bit to give Sybil a rest in the shade and a play in the stream before heading down through the old parkland where the daffodils had sadly finished flowering. I did however find one left:
Then it was down to the fallen tree where I had noticed some unusual looking fungi on the bark. My first thought when I saw them was King Alfred's cakes, and the Internet seems to agree however I am not sure if there are any similar species it could be.
Then it was along the top path and through the fields towards home, where on the way we usually see swallows, house martins and other farmland birds swooping over the fields and twittering in the hedges.
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