1 YEAR AGO FLASHBACK: First Day of Spring. A photo I took at Malahide Castle that I shared a year ago today.

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Blue Tit versus Bee. A Blue Tit exploring our nesting box had an unpleasant surprise and made an emergency exit when they encountered a large bee that has taken up residence.

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I took a stroll through the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh yesterday, and while the exotic blooms do steal the show, I couldn’t resist a fungi photo as well!

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I shared these fuzzy pink pussy willow catkins at Altamont Gardens a year ago today. I must return to see if they’re there again!

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1 YEAR AGO FLASHBACK: A photo I shared a year ago to social media, taken amongst the twisted branches of Glen of the Downs in County Wicklow.

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more photo's from last Wednesday (I'm working backwards it seems) from the warm afternoon in Memorial Park.

Signs of spring springing until it's sprung in the air. Or something.

Daffs (in the week of St David's Day, tree blossom and a bee on the move)

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The witch hazel (_Hamamelis_) is blooming and there are bees and flies sipping from the flowers! Bonus snowdrops in the background.

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More photo's from last weeks very cold walk around West Park Wolverhampton.

This time the signs of spring.

Black-Headed Gull with a black head (ok Brown head, one of the distingushing features of the black-headed gull from it's closest European relations is that it has a brown head and not a black head. Bird naming doesn't have to make sense) and the buds that are budding.

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