Sunday 2 April 2017

First Bluebell in the woods!

We found our first Bluebell of this Spring in the woods yesterday!

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The Wood Anemones are looking great as well now:
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And in one of the dens Tracy's class built back in the autumn, the flowers have moved in... it's quite bizarre, I can only assume the shelter from frost made a difference and resulted in dormant seeds sprouting. The entrance does face roughly south, which might have helped trap heat.
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Lots of the trees are now coming into leaf as well, such as Hornbeam:
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Birch:
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And even some of the Sweet Chestnut:
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Ferns are unravelling themselves, but still look a bit alien right now:
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The sun's brought out the butterflies too, we've seen several Brimstone, and a few Peacock as well:
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But it's not all been strolling around in the sun, I've taken advantage of the tracks drying out to start moving some logs - these are going to be milled into planks and beams for building stuff:
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Back later with more bluebells...

Mike

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