Spring oak tree

I had been keeping an eye on our oak tree so we could do our spring tree study when it was just bursting into bud, but it seemed to be a lot later than the other trees in the garden. Guess what - we got back from a weeks holiday in Scotland and found it was completely green - everything in the garden had grown so much with the sunshine!

The oak doesn't have any low branches and I kept forgetting to ask Paul to get the ladder to climb up to cut off a twig for us to observe more closely so we didn't really manage to catch it at the bud stage! Best laid plans and all that. Anyway we had a look at the nature detectives twig sheet at what the buds were like. I am amazed at how different they are and that you can identify a tree from its buds.

The boys filled in their spring tree sheets from handbookofnaturestudy with their observations.

We have enjoyed watching the squirrels chasing round the branches of the oak tree it has such great branches for a game of chase!