Nature Notes: Welcome back the common tern

THE 'Merry ' month of May certainly lived up to its reputation with those 'Darling Buds' opening to reveal fresh green foliage and a range of blossom trees including lilac, wisteria, elderflower and horse chestnut candles while frothy cascades of hawthorn reached down to an under storey of cow parsley and meadow buttercups flowering in profusion together with lawn daisies and green alkanet.