Silver Birch Bark

The bark of a silver birch tree in Keil's Den. 

Sometimes it's good to look up to the sky. The white branches of the silver birch gleam against a bright blue sky.

Woodland Glades

Spring woodland flowers. (Clockwise from top right - Wood sorrel, Bluebell, Wood Anemone, Lesser Celandine. Click on photo to see larger image)

Before the canopy of the trees fully develop, the early woodland flowers, notably bluebell, lesser celandine and wood anenome cover the woodland floor. Today walked through Keil's den, a wooded area on both sides of the Keil Burn which eventually flows into Largo Bay. This is an area of ancient woodland which is now managed by the Woodland Trust. The Spring flowers today were amazing - carpets of bluebells, banks of lesser celandine. There were also patches of wood anenomes, primroses, violets and wood sorrel.

At the edge of the woodland peacock butterflies were flitting about, and also orange tip butterflies, my first sighting of them this year.