Why not take a Canal Boating Holiday on one of the UK canals and watch nature at it's best this Springtime.

Spring is certainly around the corner and although The Woodland Trust have evidence that spring arrived later this year the woods and hedgerows and are now bursting with new life.

The beautiful scent of the blackthorn will soon grace our hedgerows and already the catkins are in flower.

Traditionally The National Trust counts the flowering plants in its gardens every Valentine's Day.

Although the snows in January delayed the arrival of spring this year the new flowers and bulbs are now beginning to bloom.

When spring does finally arrive everything will burst into bloom at the same time giving a wonderful display of colour and scent.

Normally it is the snowdrops that brave the weather first to give a wonderful show of pure white and green.

The bluebells then carpet the floor of our woods and forests with a swathes of blue.

The rooks are one of the first birds to nest and they will soon be building their colony and bringing up their young.

The chaffinches, nuthatches and grey herons are some of the birds that will be looking for mates and will be claiming their nesting sites.

There will soon be evidence of frogspawn in our ponds and waterways as the frogs return during February and March to lay their eggs.