Signs of Spring

This morning woken by the sound of the Thrush singing in the Ash and then shafts of sunlight pouring over Dove bank. Later, taking the dog with me down the fields she flushes out a pheasant that manages a vertical take off -

a lucky escape!

The green woodpecker is hammering at a dead oak lower down the valley, great tits are singing by the Alder on the river bank. Clusters of sparkling snowdrops fringe the edge of the pond and a solitary cry of a lamb for its mother, add to the thought that at last Spring must nearly be here.

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