Thanking our country custodians

OW incredibly fortuitous that the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed at the start of an utterly glorious spring, with nature at her most benign for decades. The dawn chorus was truly exuberant and wildflower growth breathtaking, with verges on country lanes gleaming white as wild parsley, stitchwort, white dead nettle and hawthorn came into blossom. Gorse, buttercups, meadow vetchling, cowslips, celandine, dandelions, yellow rattle and bird’s-foot trefoil threw a golden sheen across heaths, wood margins and meadows. Woodlands carpeted in bluebells, clusters of purple-flowered