Is this something else for me to worry about? Apparently another group of natural life observers are analysing things to exhaustion.
Step forward the phenologists. You can read about them on the Woodland Trust's website. But I may be worrying unnecessarily. As long as they don't want to manage things and are just content to observe. The trouble is it usually leads to someone else coming up with a scheme for intervention.
EARLY SPRING
Things are definitely early this year but even so it's patchy and not uniform. Certain plants like bluebell have had an extended season. Others were over quickly. Today the cuckoos on Blacka were in good voice.
Small birds regularly mob cuckoos, but then they do sparrow hawks which can look similar. There's obviously something in their genes that reacts to certain body shape.
The bracken is well ahead on last year in some places but in others it's made little impact to date.
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