A family out walking came past and, at the risk of sounding too nerdy, I pointed out the butterflies - from their delighted reaction I reckon quite a number of people, especially children, will be enjoying and building up their personal knowledge of nature this spring
My wife and I did an 8 day tour of Iceland, when we were the only two Brits on a coachload of Americans. Part of the pleasure of the trip for me personally was seeing the country's ferns.
At one stop an American lady came across to see what I was examining, which was a diminutive arctic-alpine species that is extremely rare in the UK, just about hanging on at a handful of sites in Scotland, NW England and Snowdonia, and yet it is fairly common in fissures in Iceland's glaciated rocks.
The woman listened attentively as I detailed the fern's ecology to her. Then at another stop later in the day I had a feeling of pride when I accidentally overheard her repeating everything I had said to a group of her fellow countrymen.