Earlier this week I decided to walk to the station along the other side of the valley – no road, no traffic, but nowhere to sit for a rest if the ground is wet
But it was a lovely morning & the signs of spring are really there to see. The ducks have come quite a long way upstream, but only to the point where our stream meets the river. No sign of any females, I guess they were all sitting on the nests hidden somewhere under the bank
I saw one of the herons but he was being lackadaisical & just feeding peacefully, he did not bother flying away
The water level is pretty low despite all the recent rain. Most of the showers have in fact been quite gentle, as well as scattered, so the water will not have been rushing down the drains
The daffodils are still very sad & a bit sorry for themselves, heads down & a bit anaemic – not at all the usual glorious display. They need a good spell of unbroken sunshine to perk them up
Don’t we all
