Woodland Trust

Nature's CalendarNature Detectives

How many signs of spring have you spotted? Record your sightings on our survey!

Get involved in nature

It's free, it's on your doorstep
and it can be all year round...

Anyone can take part in the survey and helpspring beech woods - Steven Highfield
record the changing seasons. Be a citizen scientist!

One year. Two seasons.

  • Spring
    January to June
      
  • Autumn
    July to December
     

There's lots to look out for:

  • trees lesser celandine - Pete Holmes
  • flowers
  • birds
  • insects 
  • amphibians
  • fungi
     

You can record one event, or many.
 

What exactly is "recording"? 

Recording means keeping your eyes open for seasonal events and noting the dates as you observe them.

Enter these dates instantly on to your online recording form so that the live results maps, and our data, are as up to the minute as possible.

We'll send you regular emails keeping you up to date with the latest seasonal and climate change findings.

Register now and download our free species ID guide.


Why bother?
 

We will use your records to understand more about the response of the natural world to a changing climate.

You'll be adding to the world's longest written biological record:

we've nearly 2 million dates of seasonal
changes recorded in the UK since the 1600s

That's why every pair of eyes - and every record - counts.

Discover the science of Nature's Calendar