Your pictures on the theme of 'signs of spring'

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We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "signs of spring". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.

Image source, Ausra Ray
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Ausra Ray: "A family of geese is on the run in Greenwich Park, the little gosling has an injury and he is trying to catch up with the other goslings."
Image source, Shiela Winwright
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Shiela Winwright: "A blue tit collecting moss for its new home."
Image source, Matthew Logan
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Matthew Logan: "The snowdrop is among the very first signs of spring in my part of the world, Maryland, USA. For me, it's a powerful symbol of regeneration and hope."
Image source, Rachael Blakey:
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Rachael Blakey: "An otter posing for a photograph in New Brunswick, Canada."
Image source, Catherine Holmes
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Catherine Holmes: "A baby chick ventures its noisy beak out of its nest hoping for food while its protecting nest is nestled in an ornamental tree on our Essex patio."
Image source, Michael Pearson:
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Michael Pearson: "Ash bud just about to burst into leaf, looks like it's smiling at me."
Image source, Ian Storie
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Ian Storie: "In April the sap in the grape vines begins to rise and drip out from the cut ends. I am quite surprised the grape vines do as well as they do as we are in Latvia, and the winters can be very cold."
Image source, Danielle Maruyama
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Danielle Maruyama: "Cherry blossoms at full bloom in Shinjuku Gyoen, Japan."
Image source, Geoff Clark:
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Geoff Clark: "A burst of spring colour."
Image source, Anna Sadowski
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Anna Sadowski took this in the Netherlands: "An excited dog running happily in tulip fields towards spring.
Image source, Michael Hughes
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Michael Hughes: "Last spring the squirrels in our garden had a couple of kittens, and they spent weeks playing and clambering over each other."
Image source, Julie Pennells:
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Julie Pennells: "Double trouble, lamb twins soaking up the sunshine."
Image source, Anna Pepper
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Anna Pepper: "A tiny new fiddlehead unrolling on a Boston Fern."
Image source, Loveleen Saka Momin
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Loveleen Saka Momin: "You know it will get warmer when these tiny grape hyacinths emerge gingerly out of the grass and announce the arrival of spring."
Image source, Paul Griffin
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Paul Griffin: "At the end of March and into early April my wife Shelley begins to germinate seeds for her vegetable and flower gardens under a grow light on our porch. She is meticulous in her planning and keeps track of all the details on her laptop. This was made one day when she was making notes on the seedlings' progress."
Image source, Jacqueline Gargasson:
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Jacqueline Gargasson: "Nothing like freshly baked chocolate cake slices with a nice cuppa in the garden on a glorious spring day. In Pernes les Fontaines in Provence, France."
Image source, Graham Woollven
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Graham Woollven: "A pair of mute swans affirm their bond as a pair as part of the breeding process in spring. This pair were at Holmebrook Park in Chesterfield, Derbyshire."
Image source, Rakesh Chandode
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Rakesh Chandode: "For me every year the spring begins with singing and dancing of thousands of cranes who come back to Trandansen, Sweden. Here I captured the dancing cranes on a very cold spring morning at the sunrise."
Image source, Roger Langley
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And finally Robin Langley sent in this picture: "Springus Trampolinus. They're up early this year."

The next theme is "moonlight" and the deadline for entries is 30 April 2024.

The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the BBC News website.

You can upload your entries on this page or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.

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