It feels like spring on the local cemetery patch today. In recent days I have seen lesser celendine and coltsfoot in flower and hawthorne leaves opening. In days gone by Lincolnshire people used to refer to young hawthorne leaves as 'bread and cheese' and children would pick and eat them. These young leaves can, indeed, be picked and added to salads or used to make tea. Today in the cemetery crocus, daffodils, primroses, aconites and snowdrops were all in flower. Birds were very active, especially chaffinches and it was good to hear them singing again. I enjoyed watching a pair of buzzards soaring and displaying over the cemetery, presumably the pair that nest in The Dead Wood or Carr Plantation. I was pleased to spot the goldcrest yet again and was pleasantly surprised to see a female great spotted woodpecker in the woodland burial ground.
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