Spring's a comin.....

The cranes (fr. grue) flew over today, more than half a dozen arrowheads pointing north.
As I watched, the first lot stopped and hung around in a thermal, rising slowly, as if on an invisible spiral escalator. As they got higher and higher, the other groups joined in until there were hundreds of birds all circling above.
Eventually, having reached a good height, they left, one group at a time, heading off again on their journey north.
It was wonderful to see and a very good sign of Spring on its way.