Sudden greening

Within the last week, despite the hail showers on Tuesday there has been  a greening in Philorth Woods.
This morning delicate, fresh green  leaves had opened on trees such as the horse chestnuts and beeches.

Delicate flowers of ash - no leaves on the ash trees yet

A patch of Tall Rockcress (Cardaminopsis arenosa) towering above buttercups and plantains in  Philorth Wood

Pittulie Castle in  a sudden sea of oil seed rape, Peathill kirk in the distance

Birds foot trefoil, flowering in warm sandy places along the shore road between Rosehearty and Pittulie

Forget-me-not in the among grass and nettles on the verge by the glebe at Peathill 

Campions and Bishop weed on the bents

The first of the creeping buttercups, their bright flowers attracting small insects

Small green veined white butterfly, the first we have seen this year feeding on a plantain flower