26th March 2025, the day being fair, the camera came out. Here are some of the shots. Enjoy
26th March 2025
🔼 I don’t care how common the wood pigeon is, my camera is always hungry for yet another shot of it 🔽 and the same applies for this rather shy blue-tit
26th March 2025
26th March 2025
🔼 so many catkins we’ve seen this spring 🔽 and so many golden celandines. But I don’t care, my camera eagerly devours them
26th March 2025
26th March 2025
Two less common flowers 🔼 the lesser periwinkle 🔽 and the flowering currant. Both plants we might find in a garden, yet often we find them growing free of the hedges and fences
26th March 2025
26th March 2025
🔼Yes, the butterflies are here! The peacock butterfly with its gaudy display 🔽 and late for fungi yet the scarlet elfin cup usually appears around about now
26th March 2025
26th March 2025
🔼 If the month has an -r- in it, the gorse puts forth its flowers
26th March 2025
🔼 Look! High in the sky. Two swans flying by 🔽 then bring your eyes down just a tad for these high-growing blossoms
26th March 2025
26th March 2025
🔼 as some will know I’ve a liking for lichen. I couldn’t get close enough for a detailed shot yet these circular patches still delight
And that’s all for now, folks. We’ve another walk next week. See you then
crispina kemp 
Love these pictures too. Can’t decide which one I’ll write for.
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You actually always use more than one
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Sometimes! I love them all.
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Sorry, I worded my comment wrongly. It should have read: You can always use… etc. Apologies
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No worries dear friend. I hope you got the pingback about the 7 buddies ( crows 🐦⬛) poem for last week
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I got the pingback, but I couldn’t find the comment space. So I’ve commented on the CCC post page
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Thanks 😊
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Love these, especially the wood pigeon! 🙂 ❤
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Thank you. And yes, that pigeon is fantastic! It’s a ‘can’t resist’ photos
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I used to have a flowering currant bush in the garden of our last house…. It was a beauty 💜 💜
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I like them, and I think I might have 2 self-seeded into my garden. Very early days yet. I’m sure they’re spread by currant-eating birds
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I agree Crispina…and I hope they both thrive 💜💜
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I think the reason they’re spreading throughout the countryside is the fact they are robust. I just have to keep my feet away from them!
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Good bye March and hello Spring! Some lovely shots Crispina, makes me yearn for Summer!
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Me too. I’ve got some lovely shots in the weeks ahead, too
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I can tell that wood pigeon has a lot on her mind and is dying to talk about it! heheheh
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Probably thinking of her next meal 🙂
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I like all your flora, fauna, insect and bird photos. Its difficult to pick a favorite.
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This time of year, it’s not so easy to select the photos to include here!
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by watching your feet do you mean they are small and you fear stepping on them… 💜💜💜
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I was trimming the overhang from next door’s hedge and, oops, I knocked against the sapling and, oh dear. But it’s back to growing strongly this year
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Excellent they are made of stern stuff 💜💜💜
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Lovely shots Crispina. I’ve only seen one butterfly so far, a white and the catkins are mostly gone now. We have a flowering currant on our street and I keep thinking I’ll have to get a cutting of it. Wood pigeons are very handsome birds even if they are common.
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I adore wood pigeons. I have a pair breeding some place close. They do their courting on my fence. The catkins continue here, but no longer hazel. Alder, black poplar and, what surprised me, beech. I didn’t realise beech flowers were catkins.
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