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The week in pictures: Suffolk

Alice CunninghamSuffolk
Bettys Hot Spot/BBC Weather Watchers A small bird with yellow and dark yellow feathers sits in a tree.Bettys Hot Spot/BBC Weather Watchers
The birds were enjoying the warm spring weather in Waldringfield this week

Life and events in Suffolk have been captured in a series of images during a week where the unique walking lady sign of Ipswich's Norwich Road was found, a farmer's chickens were terrorised by a peacock and the flowers were in full bloom.

Scroll down below to see how the county looked between 13 and 17 April.

Email your pictures to alice.cunningham@bbc.co.uk.

Ben Parker/BBC A smiling Reginald Wright looks directly at the camera as he stands in his living room behind the sign. The sign has a woman in high heels and a midi-length dress standing and carrying a clutch handbag. Ben Parker/BBC
Reginald Wright was passed down the Norwich Road walking lady sign by his father who ran a shoe shop in Ipswich
Julie Kemp White and pink flowers that have bloomed next to a road in a town. A car can be seen coming toward the camera in the distance.Julie Kemp
Spring has sprung along Rushmere Road in Ipswich this week
Getty Images/Luke Deal/BBC A generic image of a male peacock with its features fanned out. The other image of the right is of a farmer. He is grimacing at the camera. He wears a flatcap with a green shirt, green braces and grey trousers.Getty Images/Luke Deal/BBC
Farmer Tom Walne was fed up on Tuedsay when a peacock started terrorising his chickens in Copdock
Leo A mandarin duck swims across a pond. The duck has an array of different coloured feathers in shades of orange, brown, black and white.Leo
This mandarin duck was captured enjoying the pond at Christchurch Park in Ipswich
Qays Najm/BBC Side by side images of Jeremy Lind. In the left hand image he is at a racecourse wearing a black T-shirt with a blue gilet and yellow lanyard around his neck. On the right hand image he wears his priest robe. In both images he has his hands resting in front of his torso. He has grey hair and wears glasses.Qays Najm/BBC
A parish priest in Newmarket revealed he had a surprising side hustle on Thursday
Contributed Three padel courts being constructed on a sunny day. Three large domes have been constructed above the courts. Construction equipment can be seen below the domes. Contributed
The new Haverhill padel courts are almost ready for their opening next month
Mike Whiteman Bluebells on the ground of a woodland surrounded by trees.Mike Whiteman
The bluebells have been out in force all week in woodland around Bentley this week

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