My Newbury springtime photos

Laura Praill has captured this moment of the sun setting over Skinners Green recently

THE sunset is often great to see on a lovely spring day, as highlighted by our latest My Newbury offering.

Fourteen-year-old St Bartholomew's School pupil Laura Praill recently captured this moment looking over Skinners Green as she walked her dog in a warm spring evening.

And Laura is not the only one to have captured the joys of spring, as Louise Bellaers has recently captured evidence of bluebells blooming in the Bowdown Woods off Bury's Bank Road.

The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) a nature conservation organisation which manages vast tracts of land in West Berkshire, says the flowers have been budding their beautiful bluebells weeks earlier than expected this year.

BBOWT's West Berkshire living landscape manager, Jacky Akam, said: “Normally, bluebells will only start showing around about now, but they have already started to bloom two weeks ago. It was at the start of April that we saw the first of the blooms and normally we won't expect them until quite late in April.”

She also said that wild-growing bluebells were significant as a sign of ancient woodlands and that amongst her favourite places to view bluebells was in the Bowdown Woods or in Shefford Woodlands, Hungerford, where BBOWT will be staging the first of its bluebells walks on Sunday, May 8.

If you have recently captured some spring time moments on camera, then send in your pictures to newburytoday@newburynews.co.uk, marked 'My Newbury' and we will feature them here on Newburytoday.co.uk, in the Newbury Weekly News or in The Advertiser.

To see the pictures taken by Louise Bellaers, click on the link below.