Spring in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens

 We always love walking in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens at this time of year. The gardens have a large variety of rhodendrons and azaleas that bloom in sequence over Spring. A different selection were in bloom when we visited the gardens in March than were out yesterday. Here are some of the blooms from yesterday

 

We also recorded all the birds we saw for the BTO Birds in Greenspaces Project, which you can get involved with here, if you're in the UK. We were particularly pleased to see this Nuthatch:

We were also delighted to see a good number of Hairy Footed Flower Bees in exactly the same area of the gardens as we had seen them last year. Last year we had only seen females here, but  this year we saw both the brownish males 

and the black females 

 (Thanks to Crafty Green Boyfriend for the photos of the Nuthatch and Bees)