Marsh MarigoldsHad lots of good sightings in the park this morning the star attraction being a female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Coming a close second was a Nuthatch collecting mud and sealing up a nest site(could this be our garden bird rejecting our box and ready made mud!) .
Although it now feels that spring is definitely here there are still some winter thrushes around with 74 Fieldfare feeding in the park. We have decided to do a breeding bird survey(BBS) in the park this spring to compare results with a survey we did in 2000.
The winter aconites and snowdrops have now given way to the spring flowers with good displays of daffodils, chionodoxa luciliae, marsh marigolds and american skunk cabbage.
Lovely to see the Skunk cabbage at Normanby - it may be alien, but its shape and colour more than make-up for it!
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