Spring canopy

Looking across a west coast loch into a mixed woodland canopy, you can see that spring is getting going as tree canopies start to change colour. Some trees are more easily identified than others. The darkest colour is birch ( for example at bottom right), with alder showing a slightly browner dark to its left. The lighter brown is larch, which is scattered through the wood, while the palest trees are a mix of oak, ash, sweet chestnut, sycamore, and even some aspen. The round tops of the scots pine on the ridge and the pointy sitka spruce on the hill behind remain evergreen.