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Telegraph: The Woodland Trust survey of 40,000 volunteers found that the traditional signs of spring were on average 17 days earlier because of the hot weather in April.
The orange-tipped butterfly was spotted almost a month early on 13th April, the earliest sighting since records began in 1891. The horse chestnut, dog rose and purple lilac also broke records for coming into leaf early.
Most of the species only have records going back to 2001,
The survey recorded the earliest leafing this century for......
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Record breaking spring due to warm weather
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 4th, 2011
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