WInter Buds

Ash - Fraxinus excelsior

Beech - Fagus sylvatica


Hawthorn - Crataegus oxycanthus




Oak - Quercus robur

Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus


Alder - Alnus glutinosa
Southrepps Common

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
Santon Downham




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
Strumpshaw Fen







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
Santon Downham

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.
