A tiny dot of green is all it takes. One small shoot pushing through the earth, and it begins. It feels like the surging release of a fizzy drink, the bubbles racing each other to the surface, before bursting into the air. “Here it comes,”
I think to myself, as the corners of my mouth begin to turn upwards. And even if we’ve not quite seen the last of old Jack Frost, I feel like shouting it from the rooftops: “Spring is coming!”
This year more than ever before, those first shoots feel like a metaphor – surely the most welcome I’ve known. I always used to like summer best, but the older
I’ve got, the more I’ve come to cherish these months full of promise above all. We’ve got heralds of spring dotted throughout the issue, but nowhere more so than our cover feature, which follows great crested grebes through their elaborate winter courtship displays, in turn prompting new life in the spring. And then for those avian parents, it’s all hands to the pumps – something else I can relate to this year more than ever before.
Enjoy the issue
Paul McGuinness
Editor

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• N-Photo UK – March 2021
• BBC Countryfile – March 2021