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We haven’t done many of the nature detective challenges for a while, but today we went out to look for signs of spring.

Mummy is getting fed up of the snow and grey days and I really want it to be sunny now. We thought Mother Nature might have some pretty things for us to look at to cheer us both up.

My narcissus are already out, but I’ve been looking after them indoors, so it’s nice and warm!

Narcissi grown indoors for spring

We saw crocuses in my Grandma’s neighbours front garden yesterday. Ours aren’t out yet, but we have some growing in a tub by the back door.

We were really surprised to see this pretty girl underneath a yew tree:

an early daisy trying hard to keep her head up

We heard something in the trees and looked up to see birds breaking off twigs for their nests

birds gathering twigs to nest

We saw the tiny green leaves of valerian growing out of the church wall

Valerian growing out of a wall

We saw fluffy catkins hanging off the tree

It's raining catkins!

We saw what we thought was one lonely calendine

A calendine; Mummy was sure it was still supposed to be asleep!

We saw buds on my flowering cherry tree. Usually this has flowered and the blossoms have fallen off by now. I’m hoping it will come out for my Birthday, which is what it is supposed to do!

buds on my flowering cherry tree

We saw lots of pretty snowdrops - big clumps of them next to a wall and some scattered around the earth

pretty snowdrops

We also saw some other things that we didn’t get photos of:

Some lambs

Some calves

We heard the blackbird practising his songs

Daffodil shoots

Yarrow

Sparrows and bluetits looking inside my bird box

I feel much happier now I can see spring is not far away!