(Sorry no picture, I’m still trying to work-out how to download pictures transferred from my camera). One plant/tree that is doing well is the alder, A native tree and at home in very wet soil it has clearly coped well with the very wet Winter and early Spring, although the drab colours of the catkin-like flowers and last year’s seed heads do not stand-out from the background of the bare branches other trees (I do have picture). The same is true of willows and poplars.

Snowdrops, lesser celandine and coltsfoot seem to have flowered well. A good display of the latter may still we seen along the cliff-face of Ferriby (South) ‘cliff’. Despite regular cliff-face collapses along the unconsolidated boulder clay cliff-line the coltsfoot re-colonise quickly (I do have pictures).