Dishevelled, dejected and forlorn after two full days spent indoors doing the seemingly huge amount if paperwork associated with all the Spring walks I’ve been doing lately, as well as sorting out and editing the hundreds of photographs I’ve taken and struggling to decipher the reams of notes I make along the way.I do as much as I can each day as I go, but there’s much more to observe, photograph and record these days than there ever used to be and that’s mostly down to the advent of digital photography. Anyway, it all has to be sorted out and turned into something at least half-way comprehensible and legible for other people to use.Meanwhile, Tess likes to spend her day perched on my shoulder like some sort of wingless, beakless behemoth parrot. She’s also happy to stay there for as long as I remain seated and I must admit, my wife has occasionally walked into the room to find us both fast asleep because, although I sleep very little through the night, the moment I’m confronted with paperwork, I tend to doze off almost immediately…I guess that very little has changed since I was at school fifty years ago!Never mind though, we’re off out on another long walk tomorrow and another the day after….and then another….and another as well I think before I’ll have to devote another day to paperwork, but since we (rangers) all have to do exactly the same sort of walk in similar habitats right across the UK on the same day each time, it can get a little bit complicated to administer logistically.