A LONG country roads these days, you’ll occasionally meet tractors towing trailers clamped high with new season turf, being brought home earlier than usual as a result of excellent drying conditions in the bogs.

You are lucky enough to live in an exceptionally beautiful place, somewhere that may be a holiday destination, but sooner or later you find yourself taking its many charms for granted.

MEMBERS of the public are invited to submit sightings of mammals for a survey which will run until the end of 2015.