Now that the weather is coming from the south-west I know it's bringing rain, but it is also making the temperatures rise considerably because the bitter wind has gone. In fact, over the last couple of days it has been as warm as it is usually at the end of April.
This has had the most amazing effect on everything around, the birds are singing much more and I have also seen them collecting nest materials. Yesterday as I walked over Castle park I noticed the daffodils are beginning to open, there are dandelions and daisies opening on the grass, chickweed is flowering too and there is a small clump of cowslips in bud on the verge by the ambulance station car park. In a very sheltered spot opposite the ambulance station there is even a horse chestnut tree with the 'sticky buds' well open into leaf.
Now the hawthorn bushes are showing the very first tips of green leaf and it is possible, on close examination to see the tiniest flower buds on them too. I even discovered a few rogue Tete-a-tete daffodils flowering in my garden and the large humble bumble bees are out and about raiding the pollen from the mahonia on the homeware store car park.
With today being the spring equinox, it's almost as if mother nature has lifted a baton and started the overture that we have all been waiting for. If the weather stays mild, within a week or so I think we will be dazzled by the spectacular display as everything wakes up from it's winter sleep.
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