Signs of spring ( or another season) where you live?

[Ghostrider 67]

In VERmont....

The Red Wing blackbirds have returned and we heard geese flying overhead last night...
The sheep are losing their hair, the goats are having kids, the snow is almost gone, sap buckets and tanks/lines are suddenly everywhere in the woods.....spring is near...

Red Wings under the feeder...

 

[Ghostrider 67]

And big dog drool running down the window pane...lol.

 

[DeltaV]

In coastal Georgia the wild animals are on the move and being run over. Buzzards circling overhead, but no song birds in the yard. Biting and stinging insects are out and about. The toads have reappeared. All cars and trucks have a fine yellow coating of pollen...soon to be much worse. Temperatures are climbing and hit 80 F yesterday, but the reptiles are still laying low.

 

[Tony Tee]

And so are the mosquitoes and the weird oak trees dropping their leaves and soon swarms of catapillars dangling from everywhere. And yellow pine pollen covering every car here in central Florida. Meh!

 

[VANDAN]

The Geese were moving South the past several weeks, and the Robins showed up about 10 days ago. Had a large flock of Turkey, working our backyard, with no huge Toms, so they must be splitting for mating season. It's been cold at night, 20's, and 40ish daytimes. I've been dropping some of the ash trees that have been taken by the Emerald Boar, and going to do 2 more today. Springs about here !

 

[Runcharger]

Ha, ha: Street sweepers!

 

[Richard Cranium]

In VERmont....

Red Wing blackbirds

To refer to birds by the color of their feathers sounds kind of racist to me.

 

[Ghostrider 67]

Ha, ha: Street sweepers!

Say what? Do you mean to say street sweeping machines are a sign of spring there? lol. well, I guess they would be at that!

 

[Ghostrider 67]

To refer to birds by the color of their feathers sounds kind of racist to me.

 

[DeltaV]

Say what? Do you mean to say street sweeping machines are a sign of spring there? lol. well, I guess they would be at that!

Oh! THAT kind of street sweeper!!!

 

[slepr1]

Never fails...every spring you can see some early birds out with their convertible top down.

 

[Ghostrider 67]

Signs of winter, in Vermont, include my sheep growing a thick mat of hair, the donkeys growing out 2-3 inch long coarse hair, the chickens slow down on egg production and the ducks stop altogether. Geese heading South, Red Wing Blackbirds disappear, as do song birds, squirrels and birds that stay the winter hit the feeders pretty hard right before snow hits, bears hit the bird feeders pretty hard, foxes and hawks hit the chickens pretty hard as the food supply dwindles...the neighboring goat farm starts keeping them in the barn, the Sun sets and rises in different parts of the horizons. Standing waterers for the livestock need heaters. Ducks stop going down to the pond and need a wading pool with a heater in it.

 

[ct71rr]

I'm not sure what's going on with the weather. Last Thursday (3/11) it was about 60 degrees here in Mass. Today (3/15) it's 18 degrees and this Thursday (3/18) it's supposed to hit 58 degrees. Welcome to New England I guess.

 

[Ghostrider 67]

Oh! THAT kind of street sweeper!!!

Well maybe not. Perhaps in his neck of the woods the zombies come out in the spring and you need a 'street sweeper' to stay alive! My preference would be a double barrel 10 gauge Greener.

 

[Ghostrider 67]

I'm not sure what's going on with the weather. Last Thursday (3/11) it was about 60 degrees here in Mass. Today (3/15) it's 18 degrees and this Thursday (3/18) it's supposed to hit 58 degrees. Welcome to New England I guess.

lol! Agree! Yesterday it was nearly 60 and today and tomorrow it's 17. Down to 7 last night. Next Tuesday it'll be 60...go figure..

 

[Ghostrider 67]

In coastal Georgia the wild animals are on the move and being run over. Buzzards circling overhead, but no song birds in the yard. Biting and stinging insects are out and about. The toads have reappeared. All cars and trucks have a fine yellow coating of pollen...soon to be much worse. Temperatures are climbing and hit 80 F yesterday, but the reptiles are still laying low.

Oh, I remember the pollen from living in SC and GA for many years while in the military. Clouds of it blowing off the trees with the wind...

 

[Ghostrider 67]

This time of year in the South if anyone asks what color your car is, you might as well just say Greenish yellow.

 

[slepr1]

Damn flies in the house

 

[PRND21]

Sandhill cranes have been heading north for a couple of weeks now. Grass is just starting to get a little green tint, daffodils are starting to pop through.

 

[Kern Dog]

Sometimes you'll see a white tail out on the prowl.