Is it me, or have things really started to move in the orchard?

Signs of spring are definitely here.  Snow drops are still in flower, now joined by the pussy willow, with the soft grey fluffy catkins emerging, as seen on this willow next to the "Big Hug" in Dorothy's Orchard. (see right image)

Cream and yellow primrose flowers poke through the winter debris from bracken cut back along our hedgerow. (see left image)

Birds are busy nest building, taking twigs from the prunings and the undergrowth, and wool from the barbed wire fence where next doors sheep have inadvertently rubbed.

And we've seen a number of very small little bunnies darting across the orchard.

Sap is definitely rising...