It is very strange that while there is so much suffering and anxiety in the world spring arrived with such vigour. Everywhere in the garden and countryside life is bursting out. I find great consolidation and distraction from the sad news in the natural world. There are beautiful flowers in the garden, tulips, narcissus, camellias as well as blossom on the apple trees. All of these attract some beautiful butterflies. Yesterday, on our bike ride I saw lots of cowslips as well as primroses. There are lots of hares racing across the fields on the far side of the A143, such beautiful animals. The bird song seems louder than usual, always something chirping. In our garden we have seen lots of birds - sparrows, dunnocks, great tits, blue tits, long tailed tits, gold finches, blackbirds, robins and, my favourite, wrens. We see lots of buzzards circling overhead and yesterday a kestrel landed on our fence by our bird feeder! At night we have heard tawny owls. For anyone interested, I would recommend an app called ‘chirp!’ for birdsong.
There is so much to see and learn about out there that can also raise the spirits. We are lucky to have all that on our doorstep. Have you seen anything interesting?
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