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Originally Posted by Fournier

Now that the first signs of Spring are appearing I thought I would remind people of the Springwatch survey. Its looking to record people's first sightings of 6 things:

Red-tailed Bumblebees
Seven-spot Ladybirds
Frogspawn
Peacock butterflies
Hawthorn flowering
Swifts

It's really important to get hold of information on whether spring is getting earlier/later etc. and needs lots of people to take part.
It's really simple and as I found red-tailed bumblebees, seven-spot ladybirds and frogspawn at the weekend I thought that I would just mention it to remind people to keep on the lookout.
Here's the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/...gwatch/record/

There's also another site for pepole who want to get really carried away and start looking for even more signs of Spring - the list of that one is quite daunting so I won't type it out, but here's the link if you're interested:

http://www.phenology.org.uk/
- then go to get involved - you'll need to register

Excellent suggestion

The only downside to Springwatch is Bill Oddie appearing on the telly soon