Country Diary: A day of so many nature interventions

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Country Diary: A day of so many nature interventions

Inkpen, West Berkshire: We stop for a bee-fly, hares, sweet yellowhammers and white violets, but it’s the woodlark that really has us gaspingIn these showery, rainy, downpour days, spring on the downs has a look of the substrate that forms it – a blue-merle purling of flint and chalk. The contrasts of dapple-grey and white snag my eye as a deeply familiar marker of spring that I always forget to look for. It’s there in the chalk tracks and cream…