Bright and warm, rain later.
I'll get this Nomada Bee out of my system first. These are parasitic on Andrena Mining Bees (see below).
Everything else is going to be an anticlimax....
I'm currently seeing Alder Flies everywhere: gardens, car-parks, hedges, woodland.
This Andrena sp. landed and cleaned itself for a minute or two.
The Beech-mining beetle Orchestes fagi has already been and gone. Note that the mines always start on the midrib of the leaf. This is almost three weeks earlier than last year.
Bluebell flowers are just beginning to go over.
Bog Stitchwort caught me by surprise, but everything's very early this year.
Broom flowers always strike me as being very exotic.
Bugle (left) and Wavy Bittercress (right).
Lesser Celandine with Micropterix calthella micromoths.
The first Oak leaves of the year.
Wood Speedwell has to be the trickiest Speedwell to photograph. I'll try to get one in dappled shade, where it normally grows.
Pignut is in full flower.
Another member of the Calliphoridae.