A New Find

The wind has dropped now, so although the temperature is still fairly cool, it is far from unpleasant with the sun out, and not too bad without it.

Alas the sun had gone in and when I went out for my Boris walk, so I had to make do with "not too bad". No butterflies today, but a lot of buff tailed bumblebee queens investigating nest sites, or feeding off blossom or primrose. There was also a solitary hairy footed flower bee, but other than that I saw no insect activity.

I was walking through the old oak wood at Sconce Park - where the owl seat is if you remember that from my photographs - when I saw some white flowers at the base of a tree. They turned out to be wood anemone,  a flower I have never actually seen in town before, let alone in this site.

Apparently in mythology they were sent every year to herald the arrival of the Greek wind god, Anemos, leading to their alternate name of "windflower".

There were a fair few of them, in company with the first emerging non-native bluebells in the wood, while chiff chaffs called out from the high oaks.

I'm still struggling on, hands raw from washing.

Si

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