April showers bring May flowers

April showers have continued into May with a vengeance - hurling hail, snow and rain at us as we walked by the Spey this morning. They have brought forth an abundance of May flowers Lesser Celandine, Forget-me-nots, ranging in colour from blue to pink, daffodils, wood sorrell, violets, dogs' mercury, ground ivy and the cuckoo flower in the main Blip were all in bloom along a short stretch of the river bank and a woodland path. The wood anemones in the extra were growing a cleft in a moss covered elm bole which was 'in tiny leaf'. Elsewhere there were wide drifts of these delicate flowers. We noted Martins flying low over the river collecting mud from the banks for their nests.