Well, yesterday I got to actually walking about and formulating the beginning of a layout and plan. It was a beautiful spring day, after a week of rain and the place is coming alive!
The Old Oak
The grass is green, the birds are around and the two ravens complaining ceaselessly of my intrusion. The best of all the bugs are out! I was extremely happy to see these Ladybugs emerging from the old barn.
Lady Bugs
Even more exiting was as I walked past one willow (not sure if its a cracked willow or Almond leaved yet) I could hear the buzzing. Thousands of bees covered all the spring flowers.
I found barn swallows in the old pig shed, got swooped on by a red wing blackbird and tittered at by the robins as I slogged round with a measuring tape trying to get some idea of windbreaks/hedgerows. I even saw ducks nesting and neighbours said they saw turkeys.
Poking through all the grass is now some dandelions and a some other plants, that just a few weeks ago were not visible.