For me there are specific signs that spring has taken hold. Seeing new born lambs out in the Pennine hills, listening to skylarks and meadow pipits and seeing the waders arriving back onto the high moors. Lapwings are known as peewits, after their two toned call, and green plovers, they show me that winter is over and that we should be ready for the new life that comes with spring. Here a lapwing pauses from feeding on beetles and other invertebrates for long enough to grab a portrait.