©Countryside Agency/Mike Kipling

Marbled White Butterfly (Melanargia galathea) ©Countryside Agency/Trevor Hulme

April brings us sun and showers…

Wildlife
Bird song fills the air across the country – from the dawn chorus to courtship and territorial displays. Watch the swallows, nightingales, warblers and cuckoos arrive while redwings and fieldfares leave. Butterflies and bees forage for food, frogspawn hatch into tadpoles and baby badgers may appear above ground for the first time.

Bluebells, King's Wood, Kent Downs ©Countryside Agency/Tina Stallard

Plantlife
Abundant new leaves on trees and shrubs while wild fruit trees fill with blossom, ash trees flower and yellow gorse blooms on heathland. Marsh marigold flower beside ponds and streams, primroses cluster on sunlit hedgerows, bluebells carpet the woodland floor and cowslips and orchids feature in meadows and downland.

April Factfile
Swallows, nightingales and cuckoos are arriving for the summer, bluebells will be carpeting the woodland floor ... find out more from our April Factfile

Calendar Dates

Cranbourne Chase - Duck eggs for sale ©Countryside Agency/Nick Smith

Good Friday holiday is on 6th April 2007.

Easter Day is on 8th April 2007.

Easter Monday holiday is on 9th April 2007.

Activities And Events

East Sussex - Walkers in bluebell woods ©Countryside Agency/P. Greenhalf

You can enjoy Easter Egg trails and activities around the country throughout April 2007. Check back here soon for more details.