My wild place

The sun was shining at lunchtime, so I went out to do my BeeWalk and UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme surveys - not many bumblebees or butterflies about...perhaps the queen bees are making their workers, and the butterflies are still hiding from last night's cold snap....but there's always loads to see and hear on the path. The first perennial cornflowers have appeared, along with lots of cow parsley, wild garlic and mountains of hawthorn flowers. The bullfinches, blackbirds, wrens and woodpigeons were all calling. And I found a ladybird with two spots too...but was it a 2-spot with two spots, or a 10-spot with two spots?!