Signs of Spring

It's been colder than normal for a while here, but that hasn't stopped flowers springing up in abundance. I haven't done much nature photography lately, but here are a few snaps I took the other day:-

Snowdrops:

Crocuses (or croci!):

Hazel catkins:

Long-lens Snowdrop

Just a humble Snowdrop which I photographed whilst walking home on a windless evening a few days back, after an unsuccessful bird-photography outing. Just as well it was windless, as the exposure time was about 3.2 seconds! I got a few strange looks from passers-by as I lay on the ground pointing a huge lens (with extension tubes attached, to decrease the minimum focus distance) at a tiny flower, but such are the humiliations one must suffer in the name of art - or, in my case, in the name of yet more rubbish photos:

Signs of Spring

Some shots from a walk around this afternoon, after the rain:-

Crocus:

Daffodil:

Hazel catkins:

And another:

Spring Snowflake:

Butterbur:

Snowdrop: