Net Weather Springwatch

[Hurricane Debby]

Saw 2 bumblebees yesterday for the first time this year and also this beautiful yellow butterfly that I have no idea what it is. Could anyone tell me ? Not a bright yellow - a paleish yellow

[Polar Continental]

Saw 2 bumblebees yesterday for the first time this year and also this beautiful yellow butterfly that I have no idea what it is. Could anyone tell me ? Not a bright yellow - a paleish yellow

Hi djm,

Would most likly have been a Brimstone, there are other yelow butterflies such as the clouded yelow, but they are not seen on the wing until mid summer.

Brimstone

Paul

[Hurricane Debby]

Hi djm,

Would most likly have been a Brimstone, there are other yelow butterflies such as the clouded yelow, but they are not seen on the wing until mid summer.

Brimstone

Paul

Excellent thanks Paul. Have always wondered what it was and that is exactly it. I see them all the time in the garden and have seen so many over the last week.

[A Gower Guy]

I spotted a bee in the garden yesterday, not sure what type it was though.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

My first daffodil is out.

[shuggee]

The council have cut the grass around the Scheme at work today. Lovely smell - really brings on that spring feeling

[Louby]

My one and only daffodil has finally flowered, but was swiftly beheaded by the dog :unsure: I have also seen a few bumble bees over the past couple of days

[A Gower Guy]

Cut the lawns here today, hopefully some of the flowers (weeds) will appear bringing along some insects.

[SNOW-MAN2006]

plenty of dafodils here but wasps are appearing and dying straight away but why are they doing so is it to cold? are they to early???

[Triumph]

Well it is certainly not spring like up here but today I saw my first Swallow!!!!!! Far too early, it was looking alittle bewildered sitting on the phone line outside work, I think it must have been blown up here, I was quite shocked to see one up here so early.

I guess it was wondering why it had bothered as the winds are so strong and it was snowing.

[LeeKay]

Had a Chiffchaff calling briefly this afternoon in my back garden

[Andy Bown]

This is the first really springlike smelling evening with a mixture of freshly cut grass and fresh dew mingling with a chill in the air :lol: .

[Beverley Lass]

Hi all :-)

I was mightily surprised to have my friendly resident hen

blackbird .. ('Mrs Halfbird' .. a Sparrowhawk almost had her last

summer and she lost half her plummage ! ) .. coming to me for

scraps and loading them up for her chicks ! I see her mate is doing his

bit too tonight. This seems v. early in the season for oop north

here and after such a cold March. Bless her, hope she's successful ;-)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

x

[Louby]

I saw a couple of butterflies today, first of the year

[Hurricane Debby]

The Sycamore trees in my garden have finally started to bud as well as my Acer.

[Andy Bown]

Leaves are now bursting through from their buds in most tree species, as with most things this seems much later than recent years.

[The Penguin]

Not here yet. Some trees have the beginnings of buds and some early bulbs have flowered, but apart from that - zilch.

[frozen_north]

Not here yet. Some trees have the beginnings of buds and some early bulbs have flowered, but apart from that - zilch.

Yes spring is Glasgow is still to turn up. There was even an item on the news the other day highlighting that we at half way through spring and there are very little signs of spring. Particulary no leaves on the trees.

[Methuselah]

Pretty-much the same story here, guys...But at least the grass has turned green - at last. :blush:

[Shiny_Bottom_1]

Just as spring seems to get into gear, it stops again. Still. Like Pete, our grass has started to grow.

Also, I have noticed quite a few bumble bee's, but they look bigger this year :unsure:

Some trees have small leaves, however, others are still completely bare.

It really is an unusual start to nature this year.

[Angel15]

Just as spring seems to get into gear, it stops again. Still. Like Pete, our grass has started to grow.

Also, I have noticed quite a few bumble bee's, but they look bigger this year :unsure:

Some trees have small leaves, however, others are still completely bare.

It really is an unusual start to nature this year.

My grass is really green - I have mowed it twice so far this year, but it is quite healthy - and I agree the bumble bees are HUGE!!! I think I have a nest of them in the eaves of the house - at least I am hoping it is bees and not wasps - had a wasp next last year which I had to have terminated as there were loads of them buzzing around. If it is bees, I will let them alone, I quite like them - from a distance!!! The May tree outside the bedroom window is just about to bud, but the one over the road is in full swing! Really odd!

My daffs are up and flowering and the hyacinths and crocus and my primroses are doing well with this weird weather as well!!!

[Gray-Wolf]

Just driven by a sky full of House Martins above the sewage works at Sandbeds which, to my reckoning, are at least a week early? Seems strange with it still so cold that they are here already!

[Beverley Lass]

Just spotted the first of the House Martins to arrive here

between Beverley town and the East coast - Bless :-)

Tom Tits and Great Tits nesting in my boxes and my

Blackbirds have their first chicks out the nest today :-)

My whippet is on cat watch ! lol.

Beverley Lass x

[kar999]

Meant to post this earlier in the week but heard two different cuckcoos last Saturday 22 April.

[The Penguin]

I’m sorry to digress but this reminds me of a ‘wildlife diary’ that a past captain at my golf club initiated a few years ago. It started well with rabbits, squirrels, foxes, deer, herons, woodpeckers etc being diligently entered. However, then a potbellied pig, a panther, herds of wildebeest, and . . .em. . . a penguin found their way onto the hallowed pages. The diary was withdrawn.