Spring Has Sprung - The Grass is Riz

 THE

is due to be towed to the Dry Dock TODAY but won't get excited until the hawser is secured and the Captain orders "slow ahead both engines"!

While Jack Frost is still nipping at the Moth traps we were just hoping for a decent start to SPRING

Best option was surely another wander along the banks of the

STOUR
with first candidates being a pair? of

CANADA GEESE
and the irresistable

MAJOR OAK

with a most obliging

HERRING GULL
clinging to the battlements and it comes to something when the
Best in Show

turns out to be what looked to like a

FOX
of 2022 vintage? while this

SUPER KING AIR
was surely a 'new kid on the block'?

but no surprise to find a feeding female

BLACKBIRD
next to the

WEEPING WILLOW
then to end with 2 fine examples from freind and local prize winning

SCULPTER

ANDY HOPPER

I Wonder Where the Birdies Is? 

WE NOW AWAIT THE FIRST TRUE MIGRANT!