Happiness is…a yellow wagtail.

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Happiness is….discovering a new plant.

Delighted to discover these toothwort flowers growing in the shade of a hazel on Wye downs.

 

Happiness is…a miniature fungi found on an autumn walk.

Mushroom MLP

Happiness is…..Finding wildlife in the jungle.

Painted lady, Peacock, Holly Blue, Gatekeeper, Small Tortoishell and Cabbage White enjoying the flowers while a skimmer dragonfly and dunnock forage in the shrubbery.

Happiness is….Summer returning

By Tomasz Kuran aka Meteor2017 (Photo taken by Meteor2017) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

A party of ten swifts flew over my house today and, despite the chill weather, I knew that summer had arrived.

Happiness is…A walk in the woods in spring.

Enjoyed a wander in Earley Wood near Petham with my gang of volunteers from the Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership this week.

Herb Paris

Early purple orchids, wood anemones and bluebells

a jumble of twayblades

Happiness is….my neighbours lawn

These violets seem to cut and come again on my neighbours lawn. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they spread under the fence.