Spring is here (part 2)

I saw the first Brimstone butterfly of the season yesterday - another sign for me that spring has arrived. The Brimstone is the only butterfly of the twenty species that I have recorded on the site that I have never managed to photograph. They are strong flyers and always seem to be passing through rather than fluttering around.

Spring is here

The frogs are spawning and making their usual noise about it. I suspect the mallards eat the frogspawn - there were certainly a pair of mallards close to the spawnfest anyway.