What is budding in your life or around us, was our question.
- A great grandchild / a talk on sewing inspired me to make a day bed / chopping up cabbages in Findhorn / Last year I felt drained, but this year my heart is budding / Even the oak trees are starting to bud / The Darling buds of May/ My youngest grand daughter had her first birthday / Spring cleaning / Made a dead hedge / The willow planted in sand is budding
With Nicky, back we stretched out and tapped under the budding oaks.
We walked out of the wood, admiring Peters dead hedge on the way, and the view from Titanic point across to where A once fell in the pond. We crossed the Bridge of Armoral, which was tested and deemed safe and purposeful.
By the pond we found more blops of tadpole clusters, the original ones or content not seen. Had they been eaten? What eats frogspawn? How long are they tadpoles? Professor Gina advised around a month in egg form, and her assistant, Dr Peter concurred. However the internet challenges. Or may be its the type of frog.
From Egg to Frog in 7 weeks – The development of Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) eggs to froglets in 49 days, just 7 weeks! He took them out of the pond to an acquarium to monitor this extraordinary development. Boiled lettuce he fed them!
We took off across the land, down the rides of tree protectors, occasionally looking down their tubes to see how the trees were growing: some were budding and greening up, some slow. Down the alley of willow, we saw some were budding up, some trapped below the black plastic which we rescued up.
Observation
- Armoral’s bridge
- Frogspawn
- Jet ski-ers
- Hawthorn blossom
- Mini miracles
- Buzzard
- Peace and tranquility
- 3 teenagers in a bat bunker
- Dogs Mercury
- Anderson shelter
- Green alkanet
- Peace-of-mind
- Mole Hill
- A natures corridor
Finally Em bought us a wee box with a dried up Newt in it. She’d found it in dried up mud on her wellington boot.
One of the first images from our wildlife camera, donated by Kally: The lesser spotted frogspawn watchers, a guardian, and a beautiful wolf attached to a human.
Em’s photos of the evening – “Somehow the resident wooden guardians of the circle look like they too are having a chat after we’ve left .”
Kinda Elders in the woods 