I agree with HDT, and the more built up this area gets the less I will notice the seasons change. The less obvious the changes in the trees and bushes there will be because there will be none. How do we notice nature when we are surrounded by well-kept lawns, factored hedgerows and bushes and many many monstrous houses? I live in one of course. Now, yes, we could move more rurally, but I do not want to, nor do I want to lament the loss of wildlife habitat for the rest of my life.
If I lived in a forest would I notice the migrating geese more? The changes in the leaves, the budding on the branches more than I already do? Or do I just need to stop moaning, make do with what I can see and notice harder. The grass out the front of my house changes, grows itself and the things in it. Our garden is popular with birds, helped no doubt by the well-tended jaggies next to us. We are lucky, we are not surrounded by other neighbours, or patios, extensions and pizza ovens. Though I really wish we could just take that jaggy land, increase our garden size, concrete a wee bit for playing and have the rest as an allotment. Now that would be cool.