Easter 2013

The cold was continuing and, even when the sun was shining brightly, you felt that the wind would take the skin off your face.

I stayed at home most of the holiday weekend and went further afield only on Easter Day  –  to Langford Lakes at Steeple Langford, Wiltshire.  Don't you just love these old village names?

In my garden:

Dunnock

(The dandelions are doing well this year!)

The male Blackcap was still visiting.

Do you mind?

Dreaming of insects?

House Sparrow

I can see you

Oops!

At Langford Lakes:

Great Crested Grebe

A still moment on one of the lakes

Canada Goose

 

Mute Swan

A pair of Chiffchaff were displaying nesting behaviour in low bushes overhanging the edge of one of the lakes.  When they came higher into other shrubbery, there was a chance for a photograph.  After they had led me a merry dance for about an hour, these are the best I could manage.

Next week I shall have images from a day spent on the Somerset Levels.  It was my first day back there since the beginning of January.  The Levels are not really the place to be when bitterly cold winds are blowing relentlessly.

Footnote:

I've just set some Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) seeds in a tray on the conservatory window sill.  They don't flower until their second year and then they self-seed.  So, given that some of these start growing and I'm able to plant them out later this year, in 18 months I might have seed-heads in the garden.
Never say that I don't plan ahead!