The old and the new. Fresh reed growth back by the old.



Brooklime - Veronica beccabunga, plump and delicious awaiting blooms.







Alder - Alnus glutinosa








Cuckoo Flower - Cardamine pratensis







Fly?



Large Bitter Cress - Cardamine amara







Goat Willow - Salix caprea



Rush?







Marsh Valerian - Valeriana dioica

These are male plants with stamens and anthers

Marsh Valerian from WildFlowerFinder.org

Tag CloudWillow, MarshValerian, CuckooFlower, Alder, Brooklime, LargeBitterCress

Largely grey and blustery. Just occasionally the sun shone through.







Willow - Salix spp?










Wonderful green bracket fungus. Spp??








Alder (Alnus glutinous) caught between blusters of wind - just.

Redpoll, Siskin, Grey Wagtail

Tag CloudAlder, Willow, Landscape

Alder - Alnus glutinous catkins just about to unfurl





Those delicious new shoots



Bullfinch - Pyrrhula pyrrhula







Coot - Fulica atra



Shoveller - Anser clypeata







Fungi??







Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris



Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates











Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

At least four Marsh Harriers
A pair of Chinese Water Deer
and
a
Fox

Tag CloudCoot, MarshTit, CherryPlum, Landscape, LongTailedTit, Alder, Bullfinch, Shoveller, Fungi

River Ouse at Santon Downham











Coppice Alder (Alnus glutinosa) in the late afternoon sunlight on the river bank.



Old Poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') full of nesting holes.

Marsh Tit on the river bank



Siskin, Brambling, Grey Wagtail, Dabchick


Earlier in the day at Grime's Graves Woodlark singing in the sunshine.

Tag CloudLandscape, Alder