Dead Hedging, Ditching and Hedge Laying. With the valuable help of local volunteers I have been able to complete the last of the Winter works this past week on three urban green spaces before Spring finally sets in.

Colt’s-foot emerging from the damp leaf litter that has overwintered at the lakeside edge #WildFlowerHour

Three storeys tall. The #WhiteFlowers of White dead-nettle #WildFlowerHour

A distinctive buzz and my first sighting this year of a male Hairy-footed Flower Bee. Another sign of Spring amongst the #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring Sweet Violets posted last Sunday. #WildWebsWednesday

No frills, burred Beech, Lincolnshire. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Sunlit sulphur yellow #SignsOfSpring amongst the twigs of the lakeside Goat Willow. #WildflowerHour

#SignsOfSpring underneath the “Residents Parking Only” sign. Red Dead-nettle out-sprung by purple flowered Sweet Violet which in turn is out-sprung by white flowered Sweet Violet, Viola odorata var dumetorum. #WildflowerHour

Possibly Netted Crust finding its way up a coppiced Hazel stake bound into a laid hedge. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

One of a number of nest boxes on an urban green space that I have cleaned dried and refurbished over the past couple of weeks. Within minutes of putting this one back up this morning in its original location two Blue Tits were checking it out.

Tumbling Toads on Tuesday.

Over the past week one rain soaked Cherry Plum flower became one amongst many. #WildflowerHour

A sunlit swathe of Sweet Violet making its way through urban Lincolnshire lakeside woodland. #WildflowerHour

The importance of dead trees.

I don’t think it unreasonable to expect the Environment Agency operatives that coppiced this willow on the River Witham, Lincolnshire, to have at least have shown a personal gesture of environmental goodwill by clearing a small pile of #litter that they would have seen, kicked away and trodden on.

A sketchy assumption that this is Artist’s Bracket #FungiFriday

#Mammal #Mustelidae #Ermine #WhiskersWednesday This very cute little assassin aka Short Tailed Weasel pauses just long enough for a look at it's whiskers.

A first Marmalade Hoverfly on a fourth fully opened Lesser Celandine seen so far this year #WildWebsWednesday

A Ramshorn Bagworm grazing the plains of lichen on top of a grave stone; carrying its home/sleeping bag as it goes. Luffia lapidella (Psychidae) caterpillar. #lepidoptera

Common Field Speedwell and Red Dead-nettle against the backdrop of an unusually blue rainless sky. #WildflowerHour

Several weeks behind last years first flowering. Marsh Marigold in a Lincolnshire nature reserve scrape. #WildflowerHour

My first find of a fully opened Lesser Celandine this year on a rural Lincolnshire verge. #WildflowerHour

Kingfisher in quite a nice pose! #bird #nature #photography #art #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #nikon

The first Toad of the year. Very much in a winter slumber in the cosy damp decaying trail of Great Willowherb stems

Canopy shy. Twisted heavy branches of English Oak meet the airy twiggy brush of Silver Birch #ThickTrunkTuesday

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A sunny start and a sunny finish to this months working weekend but of course there has been a lot of rain in between

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Beech buttress roots. #ThickTrunkTuesday

Common Snowdrops drifting their way through a thicket of Snowberry #WildflowerHour

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My working week started last Sunday with an enjoyable day with volunteers, in the main, using hand tools to lay a hedge on an urban green space. Rounded it off today with an enjoyable day off in lieu, laying part of a Lincolnshire farmland hedge under the guidance of an experienced hedge layer.

A nippy start to the fingers this cold misty morning finishing off the last swirling of a living willow screen on The Nettles. A shared effort between a local monthly volunteer group and myself, fortunate enough to be able to pick up this enjoyable work as and when I can in between other jobs.

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A rare patch of sunshine from the past in week in Lincolnshire with some naturalised Double Snowdrops in it #WildflowerHour

Truck stopping Sowbread. Luckily this eye catching patch of magenta was on a quiet rural hamlet road junction enabling me to pull up and check it out. #WildflowerHour

Part of the afternoon spent cleaning the garden bird nest boxes out. Having last Spring, watched the parent Blue and Great Tits build their nests, frantically flying back and forth feeding their young, there is always hope that all survived. For any number of reasons two of the Blues did not fledge.

Oyster mushroom nestled in the wet creviced bark of a Horse Chestnut tree trunk #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Probably for today only and for the rest of the week but it has been good while it lasted

Some stakes are straighter than others.

Sycamore silhouette, Culverthorpe Estate, Lincolnshire #ThickTrunkTuesday

A clump of Common Snowdrops looking away in utter dismay from the badly littered roadside layby woodland that they have found themselves in. #WildflowerHour

The sound of the #BigGardenBirdwatch in next doors Ash tree after a mini murmuration of Starlings flew in. But it won’t be a zero count in my own garden with two Collared Doves, seven House Sparrows a Robin and Dunnock a couple of minutes in.

A hedgerow Ash, Norton Disney, Lincolnshire #ThickTrunkTuesday

These Guelder Rose berries really stood out amongst the gloom of a grey damp drizzly day. I planted this shrub amongst others fourteen years ago on the local nature reserve that I was working on with volunteers today. (My brilliant volunteers stood out on a grey damp drizzly day too) #WildflowerHour

I last posted a Sweet Violet on #WildflowerHour twenty seven days ago and this go to south facing patch on an urban local nature reserve, has been flowering long before and since then through snow, frost, rain and shine.

Glistening wet, orangey brown. Thawed out Velvet Shank. #fungifriday #fungifriends

Frosted King Alfred’s Cakes #fungifriday #fungifriends

Cold Blue Sky #ThickTrunkTuesday

Whether it is Cup or Peel, a striking vivid Orange fungus highly visible on bare Lincolnshire farmland soil #fungifriday #fungifriends