Spring Wanderings Miscellania

The majority of these pictures were taken on a run, and a walk, on the Grange Road field towards Hawton. The walk took me straight back into town and a cup of tea at the park, but the run took me into the muddy squelchness of Pykett's Wood after an unsuccessful look for wheatear and yellow wagtail on the Cotham Flash paddocks.

During both journeys, bright weather alternated with scudding clouds and squally showers.

These are the routes I enjoy taking me so much, out in the countryside without having to go very far, and always the chance of seeing something new, like I did when I flushed a battalion of 200 whistling wigeon, or spotted a hummingbird hawk moth about its long tongued business amidst the Hawton lungwort.

Now is the time to think about longer trips; the bike ride to Whisby Park, the walk to Southwell with a picnic, another attempt to penetrate the Barnby to Claypole Passage, and perhaps a 40 mile cycle of the Robin Hood Way.

Give me a sunny day after an early night, all of these things may be possible.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 03.04.16

Under the weather

Red nettles

Lichen

Blossom

Approaching squall

Periwinkle

The rain passes

Violets are out

As are the vivid currant flowers

First bluebells on the sconce

The old oak wood. Dry here

Unlike Pykett's Wood