Local wildlife

 Well the temperature has warmed up today and the sun has come out! Of course it is half term ARGH! Anyway I picked the camera up and went for a wander

There have been 5 Moorhen on the split pond all winter. They fly sometimes when it is iced over but 5 return! 

When you are a walk from home birder Canada Goose is an unusual find! I had seen Yellowhammers and Little Egret before it!! 

So my walk from home list is now 41 I have not seen a Greenfinch yet! Nor have  I seen a single winter finch all winter! 

The Ponies

I haven't walked over the common lately. It gets very boggy in winter but as it has been dry lately it was passable today. I didn't have a camera with me...

There are only 9 ponies on the common at the moment. I assume some are in stables with foal? One of them was at the far end all on his own. I didn't walk to him.

These are at the M11 end

I had thought all the foals had disappeared but one remains. It was wandering.

A concert

I was at Saffron Hall this afternoon to see the BBC Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Sakari Oromo. 

Grazyna Bacewicz - Overture for Symphony Orchestra 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Bassoon Concerto in B flat minor K191

Edward Elgar - Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra Op 62

Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No 8 in G major Op 88

The bassoon soloist was Julie Price who after the Elgar was seen nipping into the audience to listen to the Dvorak.

As ever an excellent afternoon

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

So with the promise of some decent weather I got up and headed out. 

I haven't been to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden since November so off I went.

The garden as ever seems to have one of the best snowdrop displays.

There were a few daffodils out.... my first of the year!

Someone had just been feeding the ducks LOL

Part pf the pond was still frozen! 

 as ever a lovely walk!