Natural signs that show spring comes earlier | Environment | The Observer
Spring is sooner recognised by plants than by men, states the Chinese proverb – a point that has been backed by science. Researchers have found that the behaviour of plants and the animals that feed on them shows spring is arriving earlier every year. It also appears that this advance is accelerating, according to Dr Stephen Thackeray of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, in Lancaster.
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This is an enterprise in which the public can help, using tools on the website naturescalendar.org.uk, for example. According to a sighting registered there, a lesser celandine – which usually starts flowering in March – was spotted doing so on Friday last week.
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