Couple of snails

 Spotted while out on the walk the other day.

Some wild flower spots

 Taken while out on a walk.

High altitude clouds

 Looking straight up on a walk to the shop.

The thin whispy clouds are Cirrocumulus. There's also some irridesence visible where the sun shows in the shot.

Cirrus clouds

 Couple of shots of these high, thin wispy clouds.

May's Flower

 A spot of Hawthorn blossom in a Privet hedge.

Cowslips

 These were found growing in a verge by the side of a footpath near a main road. I'm used to seeing them growing in the wild!

The name Cowslip is said to derive from Cow's slop because it is often found growing near cow dung.

Wildflower Spots

 Spotted while walking the dog. 

Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum) and Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) 

Phone shots

Hawthorn blossom

 From a walk the other day. It rained heavily later while I was still out!

Fire in the Sky

 A quite spectacular sunset from the garden captured with my Huaweii phone.

Hedgehog in the garden

Well I say in the garden, he was actually near the back door step! I let the dog out and wondered why she was hesitating. I went to get her and came across this big pig!
First time I've ever been able to get a good hedgepig shot!
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Wood Avens

Also known as Herb Bennet, this is a wild flower in the Rose family  that seems to like my garden! Its a sprawling low growing plant with these tiny yellow flowers that are less than the size of a penny. These are follwed by seedheads that are like burrs that catch on your socks as you walk through the grass.
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Approaching Fairyland

This is a very close up shot of a Dandelion clock, taken in the garden earlier on a cold dull day. I set the widest aperture to give an extra soft look.
10D +100mm macro lens at f3.5
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Down amongst the Dandelions

Pretty much a guessed shot in my garden earlier. Not strictly macro but I was pretty close to those Dandelion clocks!

I just held the Panasonic FZ7 down low so it would be looking upwards through the dandelions and fired off a shot.

1/400 at f5.6
ISO 80
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Smells as good as it looks!

A close up of Lilac (Syringa) on a dull windy day. Flowers just starting to open.

A sign of Spring!

I thought of the guys on the BBC Wildlife Forum when I saw these new Oak leaves emerging! I had to wait for the sun to come back out-it has been doing a disappearing act all day!

3 tiny parasols!

I came across these in a farmer's field while out on a walk with the kids recently and had to get on my knees to capture it!.
Taken with the canon 10D + the 19-35 zoom