Wednesday 21 April 2021

March on the Southwell Trail - Part 2

Following on from my previous post is a selection of mainly close-up photographs from the Southwell Trail taken during March. Together they record the start of the spring season, with the first sightings of celandine flowers:




These are hornbeam leaf buds that are just starting to produce new leaves:


New hawthorn leaves plus the first hawthorn blossom of the season:


Willow catkins:

The large bud of a horse chestnut tree:


I think this is a flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum):

The fields off the trail were being prepared for a new crop leaving these stripy patterns:





Finally, as we leave winter behind, it doesn’t take long for some the paths to dry out and crack:







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