A blackbird sang from a hazel tree with swinging yellow catkins; buds were just beginning to open into miniature bright green leaves.

While quite unmoved by the blasting bitter wind the buff yellow catkins of an alder tree by a forgotten ditch told that the weather would be warmer soon.

While the rest of my trees have little more than incipient buds on skeletal branches, the filberts are covered with yellow drooping catkins of male flowers, as if they'd been lavishly decorated for spring.

The flowers are yellow catkins 1.5-7 cm long, produced in early spring.

The flowers are yellow catkins, 3-8 cm long, produced in the spring with the leaves.

She was up and doing it before she had consciously decided to, combing tiny yellow catkins and twigs from his locks with her fingers.

The flowers are yellow catkins 1-9 cm long, produced in late spring after the leaves emerge.

In Spring, slender yellow catkins with pink tips appear.

Finally I reached out and picked a fuzzy yellow catkin from his hair.

The flowers are small catkins 1.5-4.5 cm long, produced in early spring; they are often purple or red in colour, whence the name of the species (other willows mostly have whitish, yellow or green catkins).