old records

The Woodland Trust and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology would like to express special thanks to those people who have sent in past records of nature’s events.

We have been amazed to receive some records spanning 50 years, but also delighted with the many that cover the last 5 to 10 years.

The information is particularly valuable because it helps to reinforce the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology’s historic data spanning back to 1736.

It especially helps to cover the crucial gap in the data from the end of the Royal Meteorological Society’s recording (1947) to 1998 when the UK Phenology Network was revived.

 

 

You are only able to enter observations online for the current period, so if you have kept records of nature's calendar in previous years and have not yet submitted them, please contact us!

Historically people have not been as quick to record autumn events - the departure of swallows and swifts, the arrival of fieldfares, autumn colours, fruits ripening, leaves falling etc - and so data is very thin on the ground.

Therefore if you have any autumn records please do get in touch, however insignificant they may seem to you.

 

 

Records may be found in the strangest places.

One of our favourites is this set of daffodil flowering dates painted on a garden shed.

 When the dates were analysed they produced a very clear relationship with temperature.