So whisper it but a week on from that last post we have had two days of early springlike weather. The sun`s been out with some real warmth in it, the breeze has been a bit chilly but has helped to dry everything out and the snowdrops are everywhere. The daffodils on the other hand are being a little more cautious as yet.
Most noticeable has been the bird activity. Yesterday there was a group of male blackbirds hanging out together in and out of the gorse but it can only be a matter of days before they start singing fit to burst from the top of those same gorse bushes and fighting tooth and nail, no, beak and....beak, to mark out their own bit of territory. A couple of sparrows have already taken up residence in the eaves and any time now, hopefully, the skylarks will be giving it laldy over the top of our hill.
The woods are still "out of bounds" because of the forestry work currently going on but there`s something special about plodding to the top of that hill two or three times a day, watching as Spring finally arrives - though if we get even a little bit of what New York is enduring at the moment it can still be put on hold.
