“If the oak comes out before the ash there’ll be a splash.” Well, we’ll see but the oak is decidedly in advance of the ash in TSM and seemingly elsewhere in our local countryside.
The tall birch has already flowered and is shedding its catkins on the ground.
Insect life is still sparse but today I saw a common carder bee on 
the bugle flowers and not far away this little moth Réaumur’s longhorn (Adela reaumurella) was resting on a leaf of the same plant.
