Charity Chicken Contribution

Matthew Usher / EDP

Maxwell, local bird man Fabian Eagle's oldest, has donated two chickens to the spring ball associated with the Wayland Show to be held at Lynford Hall in Munford on Saturday. They will be auctioned off in aid of the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

Kyle Bean / Rex Features

Sure one of the Eagle clan would know the perennial question of which came first...

Searching Signs of Spring

Catkins bask in early March rays but super sunshine and waning winds promised signs of spring today, pertaining proof proved hard to produce. The lichens live long lives on lost logs.

The cultivated flora has begun to flourish though, daffs are sprouting and roses shooting. Also...

Flowering Blackcurrant

Photinia 'Red Robin'

Viburnum Tinus

Forsythia 

All photos © J Reed