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Signs of spring arrive early for the UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/09/signs-of-spring-arrive-early
Blossom and other signs of spring have been spotted weeks early, says the Woodland Trust. Photograph: Finbarr O'reilly/Reuters
The first signs of spring are emerging weeks early in the countryside and in gardens as a result of the mild winter, experts said on Sunday.
The Woodland Trust, which manages Nature's Calendar, a scheme in the public records signs of the changing seasons, said it already had reports of snowdrops and daffodils in bloom and silver birch, oak and hazel buds bursting.
The National Trust said fields were very green in comparison with last year, when they had suffered extensive frost damage, and the signs of spring were already emerging.
National Trust conservation advisor Matthew Oates said: "After two cold winters, we've reverted back to the modern trend of mild, wet winters.
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... as they have been doing all through the "winter" ... even putting out a new
bloom cluster on New Year's Day just to make the point ...
There have been lacewings & garden moths on the outside of the windows
over the last week.
I know I live in the comparatively warm south of the country (Old Hampshire 
)
but even so, this is somewhat unusual ...
