Things I love about spring

The snow seems to have gone now, and we've had some warmer days, although it's a bit variable. Since taking up birdwatching, spring is my favourite time of year, although trying to think of things I love about it I realise that it's more an overall sense of excitement and pleasure in the longer days, rather than specifics. But here goes, things I love about spring:

• Return of the migrants - swallows, cuckoo, warblers
• First bees buzzing around
• In about a month's time enjoying English asparagus & new potatoes
• Mini eggs
• Lungwort blooming in our gravel garden
• Frogs
• Lambs
• Planting seeds with high hopes of a vast crop of vegetables & flowers