Most plants have flowers and produce seeds and these pictures show some of our trees "in flower".

This sycamore produces quite long flowers containing quite a large amount of pollen.

 

 

 

 

The ash (left) and oak trees produce similar sized flowers and the ash flowers are out virtually before the leaves have fully appeared.

Lastly is this lime tree flower these are the most scented and according to a bee keeper friend produce a nice flavoured honey.

April has seen our bird population busy with nests eggs and chicks and we have seen many fledglings as the month draws to a close.

This hole in the heifer cubical wall was deliberately left 35 years ago during some alterations to allow the blue tits to nest.

It has never been filled in and as you can see has been home generations of these busy little birds.

Paul and Andy may take some nice photos but this wren was pictured by Phil Bratt a professional using a camera which set Paul drooling.

Phil takes pictures on a variety of subjects and to see more of his work click on this link www.philbratt.co.uk, Phil is hoping to take some pictures of our swallows later this summer.

 

Our final bird of the month is our old friend the Buzzard.

Pictured here by webby as it soared tauntingly several hundred feet above him.

It left Andy wishing he too could have some of Phil Bratt's photographic equipment.

 

Lastly webby managed to drag himself out of bed just after dawnon the 31st to catch these photos of the end of an eclipse

Had you been living up in Scotland you could have been lucky enough to see the eclipse in its full glory. in this case it was what is know as an annular or ring eclipse.

The moon covers the sun but because of its distance from earth at the time of the eclipse the outer edges of the sun remain visible forming a ring.

 

 

More nature pictures this month on our then and now section see you next month PHIL.

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