Richard Bell's Wild West Yorkshire nature diary
Wednesday, 28th March, 2007
IT’S
THAT TIME of year when, despite all the structural work we do in the garden
during the winter, we soon find we’re slipping behind with sowing and
weeding. So why am I sitting by the pond drawing? I realised that my back would
have suffered if I’d gone on and done all I had in mind in one session.
The pair of mallards have left the pond in a bit of a state. All that dabbling they’ve done has left the water looking reddish with bits of debris floating around in it and no signs of pond life, apart from a solitary pond skater.
A
sign of spring; there are more and more daisies coming up on
the grass verges. This one, at Horbury Bridge, had pink outer rays instead of
the usual white ones.