Yes cherry plum and blackthorn yes pretty yes but the other trees have also been getting on with it 🍃🌳

Ahead of the new season, Cricket Starter Packs Part 1 - the original go.bsky.app/Uq6tVD6 Part 2 - the follow-on go.bsky.app/12FSHyh *New for 2026* - England and Wales Domestic Cricket go.bsky.app/Ha3F5UP You don't have to be a member to follow. Recommendations welcome

Anyone for a few dozen early spring blossom pics? I've got apricot, peach, nectarine, pear, plum, greengage, damson, cherry, Japanese quince, and blackthorn... small selection below, plenty more on the blog: orchardnotes.com/2026/03/31/g...

Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year. On 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that the painting was 'as good as anything I have done.'

@yolobirder.bsky.social @goldengrenadesco.bsky.social What is going on?! Dance music features herons. What do you think? (Enjoying GG by the way, thank you) music.apple.com/gb/album/the...

Sunshine at 5:45pm and apple blossom almost here. Good.

Little bits of Seurats (They’re at the Courtauld)

Sometimes I don't care about context.

It’s the 60th anniversary today of a dog called Pickles finding the stolen Jules Rimet trophy by a tree in Upper Norwood in south London, which will please anyone who’s watched Small Prophets

All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever. 9/

Why do I talk to a bumblebee whenever I am trying to persuade one out of the house? - no, this way - look, I’ve opened the door for you - don’t go up there - you’ll like it outside, honestly you will

Dog’s Mercury arriving in the wood this weekend #WildflowerHour

22nd March 2026 06.07

Crescent moon in the NW and a planet to the SE of it, just as the sky changes colours into night-time. Very pretty if you are able to look.

The florist SAID these are parrot tulips but ACTUALLY these are anti-existential-crisis tulips

6am bee in room. Lovely spring, please let me sleep

@charlieconnelly.bsky.social Enjoyed NAD #13 - what a cornucopia - and very happy to hear about the book

This week, leafburst on the apple tree, and the first hints of the cherry blossom to come. Been waiting for this with something approaching hunger. #SignsofSpring #FlowerReport

Who wants to watch nine minutes of 10,000 cranes? @levparikian.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Peak Magnolia at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge.

Small fanfare please as the first tulip in the garden opens this morning. I am so here for this equilux week

Equilux meaning equal light is the day when daylight and darkness are closest to being exactly 12 hours each This year, the Vernal Equilux occurs on the 17th March for UK locations roughly south of Norwich, and on the 18th March for locations generally north of Norwich.

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

Some new prints up for grabs on the website. Currently limited stock to see how they go. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/anglia-square/

The North Sea, from the East Coast Main Line on Wednesday morning, making an early start for Edinburgh a lot more enjoyable

A round up, in no particular order, of the peregrine falcon nest cams of England: Spring 2026 Expect to see the first eggs laid in some of these locations in the next week or two

Late for #wildflowerhour but here are larch flowers I saw yesterday #signsofspring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Spring has sprung & buds are beginning to burst into #blossom. At least they are here in Cornwall A good time to remind myself of the differences between Blackthorn & Cherry Plum...explained beautifully in this great blog post by @badbotanist.bsky.social 🌿 badbotanist.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/b...

CHIFF - CHAFF - CHIFFCHAFF #chiffchaff

Blackpool sunset earlier tonight.

MARCH is here

@levparikian.bsky.social Lev, I think there was a blackcap here on Wednesday when the sun was out. Does it sound like that to you?

What a photo

In the spirit of @orkneylibrary.bsky.social, THIS is how light it is at 6am today. Birds are going for it. Two months since Christmas: might be through the worst?

well

A few people have suggested that I could do some how-to-solve-cryptic-crosswords workshops - for money, like. Would anyone be interested in forking out for such a service?

It really is worth subscribing to London Centric. Look what it’s done now

Dive into a list of small good things ⬇️

Got this off Bandcamp, and it’s now this evening’s cooking sounds, thanks for the recommendation, BUNKR ⬇️

Local Hero fans, look here⬇️

Does anyone on here know something about ski jumping? I want to know how someone STARTS to learn to do that - what do they do to get the basics before they start flinging themselves down a large (or normal) hill? #olympics

I like snowdrop festivals they are a sort of low-key (low-level (?) British sakura, folk celebrating the hope of spring. Like with the cherry blossom, I like that we share photos of these tiny tough little flowers too.

14th February 2026 07.41

... as if all the birds left at the same moment ... [or just a worn out wall by the sea front]

Public service message ⬇️ #cricket

“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves. Yet the world is waking up”. Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)

Clear-cut evidence that Charlie Brown will grow up to be a copy editor. Poor guy.

I love everything about this story, not least the care and interest shown by the lorry driver.

For a few minutes I stood by trees in thin sunshine and listened to birds calling and saw snowdrops open and - it is on the way, people, the world is turning. Good riddance January. On we go.