[Eristic]

Spring is definately on its way now so lets have no more grumbling about the weather. This week I've found quite a number of slow worms lurking under boards, weed mats and such like, the wrens all sound like carpenters with blunt saws and the woodpeckers are rattling away in the tall trees.

Today I noticed one newt in the pond along with a large number of waterboatmen beetles. Strange though, the frog that was there before the snow arrived seems to have disappeared.

Ladybirds are stirring and the Crocus are flowering. It's time to get busy.

[muntjac]

peacock butterfly in beccles eric .also baby rabbits about , the snow drops are out all over as are daffs  stupid woodpigeons gathering twigs for nests

[Annie]

The blackbirds have been in and out of the clemetis where they build a nest every year,other birds have been chasing around the garden for weeks.I really know it`s spring tho`when the foxescry at night and I can here the female duck on the pond at around 5am....3 drakes there so far.

[leeky]

Beautiful time of year! Plenty of Rabbits about down the dunes here. Fruit bushes out back are starting to show life. Daffs everywhere, its enough to bring a tear to me ear

[John]

I think this weather is strange - we've not had a winter as such, maybe two weeks of it . Hardly a frost but enough rain to send Noah to the workshop.

Now it' certainly feels like spring. I just wonder how we're going to garden if this year signals a new pattern.

[leeky]

Now it' certainly feels like spring. I just wonder how we're going to garden if this year signals a new pattern.

One of these on wheels John?  :o

[Eristic]

I just wonder how we're going to garden if this year signals a new pattern.

Some of us will adapt and some will fail. Closely observing the natural goings on around the plot enables us to better understand the changing weather, be it just seasonal or global warming. The newts and slow worms have emerged from their underground caves which they share. This means that the temperature 10-30 cm below surface level has risen a significant amount. (Significant to newts and slow worms anyway).

Seeds will also be able to benefit from this rise in temperature even if us mortals still moan about the cold.

[WG.]

enough rain to send Noah to the workshop

   

[shaun]

and bill oddie will be comming out of hibernation soon  

[Bigbadfrankie]

I was at the plot yesterday and even though it was cloudy the temp was 60 F  :shock: Did not have a probe for the ground but the hedgerows are starting to shoot new leaves. Next the bunnys will be hard at it and then there will be loads of little bunneys. :roll:

[milkman]

Ribbit Ribbit!! We have froggies hard at it in both ponds - home and on the plot.  Lottie pond is always a couple of weeks ahead because its in full sun.

[mercury]

Magpies have been building a nest at the bottom of my lottie since november, its now four feet deep, never seen this before.    

[Aidy]

Dont think we have had winter here yet  :roll:

[sorrel]

I got a pair of blue tits checking out one of the nest boxes...  

Also got amrous frogs going for it in the pond

 - daffs and camelias in full flower and Rhodedendrums ready to burst into flower      

[stu_wat]

for the past week or so I have been woken up by the birdies singing there early morning song.

Spring is here YIIIIIIPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEE