I think I've seen more cowslips this year than ever before, which is great. Our orchard is just breaking into blossom, with bluebells coming out under the trees. We have an enormous old crack willow and there is a bird (either a robin or a wren I think) nesting in a hole in it. A cuckoo calls continually down the fields behind the house. Blackbirds are nesting in the ivy covering an old wall. I'm afraid the hawthorn blosson is a long way away yet, but the bird-cherries and blackthorn are covered with blossom. I notice with a sinking heart though, that though my ash tree is now in leaf, the oak leaves are still just buds so we may be in for a wet summer.

Love Lynne