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Get involved

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

Anyone can take part and help
record the changing seasons:

One year. Two seasons.

  • Spring
    January to June
     
  • Autumn
    July to December
     

There's lots to look out for:

  • trees
  • 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 onto 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.
 

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.
 

Register now

 
 
 
 
 
 
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