Signs of Spring!
The seasons have come around fast, probably because I’ve spent the vast majority of the last year inside a flat. Somehow, in spite of the pandemic, the world is still turning and once again spring is starting to, well, spring up everywhere. The park is extremely muddy at the moment from a winter of trampling while going for a walk in the park has become the highlight of most people’s weeks. Getting off the main paths is a pretty mucky thing to do right now, so most of our sojourns into the park have stuck to the hard surfaces. Red deer ignoring the early joggers Spring seems to get earlier every year with late February now being the time when we get our first reliably warm days. This is another reminder of how much our climate is changing, and all over the place people are spotting things that would usually not appear until March or even April. The Woodland Gardens are full of daffodils at the moment with some wonderful glades smothered in them. The woodpeckers are also busily definin