This May was more like March, with rain, hail and wind but blossom appeared as soon as there were warm and sunny intervals. Some flowers however did not survive the elements after two or three attempts at flowering. There was very little shelter from other trees.most of which had yet to come into leaf.
What a change from last year....
Fruit tree on the river bank fully in blossom
attracting bees. 11th May 2021
Tuesday 11th May started fine and warm but breezy from the south with some varieties of fruit trees suddenly in blossom. A buzzard was circling overhead with blackbirds, whitethroats, blackcaps chiffchaffs, willow warbler, goldfinches, robins, wrens, dunnock, song thrushes and a mistle thrush all singing and most quite easy to see through the bare branches of Oaks, Maples, Ash and Willows low and high.
The bank with a leaning fruit tree in blossom and daisies in the background
and Hawthorn in a sunlit location - one of the first trees to come into leaf and
then come into blossom:
Close up - May flowers awaiting insects on 11th.
The following days became dark again with drizzle and rain but with the welcome sight of swifts flying under the clouds, catching insects.
Even the early butterflies disappeared for a while:
This Peacock butterfly was the first seen -here on 4th April 2021
warming up in the sun on a warm bed of straw - last year's dry long grasses.
See the next post for the May Survey on 27th May 2021...
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