Gradually, week by week, spring is coming, and wildlife species emerge. In local woods there are great tits, wood pigeons, and mistle thrushes singing, and more insistent with the passing days. At night, tawny owls are also vocal as they announce territorial possession. A fox echoes their calls as it cries loudly with short barks and ‘wow-wow-wow’ contact calls. In so many ways, nature shows signs of an awakening from the winter’s slumbers. Some of the emerging creatures are large and obvious, and others less so.