Spring spread more slowly across UK in 2016 – Woodland Trust

Spawning frogs, arrival of swallows and first oak leaves took four weeks rather than three to spread from south to northSigns of a British spring including spawning frogs, the arrival of migrating swallows and the first leaves on oak trees took a week longer to spread across the UK this year than in the last two decades, according to nature watchers.A mild winter saw spring flowers out earlier than usual, and signs of spring such as hawthorn leafing and red admiral butterflies on the wing on Chr