As the weather becomes milder, many signs of spring will become evident while walking on the Greensand Ridge. A visit to some of the ancient woodland such as Bakers Wood in Stockgrove Country Park will reveal a carpet of wood anemone on the higher parts of the wood, soon to be followed by a flush of bluebells and other ancient woodland plants such as yellow archangel and yellow pimpernel. Careful searching along shady hedge and ditch banks may reveal one of the smallest spring flowers, the moschatel or ‘town hall clock’, so called because its head of green flowers face in different directions like the faces of a clock tower.

Amphibians will be becoming active now with frogs, toads and newts all making there way to local ponds to breed during March and April. A visit to Rammamere Heath opposite Stockgrove Country Park on a warm spring morning may be rewarded with a glimpse of an adder newly emerged from hibernation. This is one of the few sites in the area where this reptile can still be found.