Signs of Spring?

[hedgehog]

Upstate New York, 10 miles south of Lake Ontario: the geese are getting restless, I saw two predatory birds today (this is a flyway for migratory predators)and the skunks are out moving around.

Anything where you live? Tell us where you are so we can track the progress.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. It snowed today in Apache Junction, Arizona n/t

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

It's definitely been a strange winter in Chicago.

Two weeks after the big blizzard we got a string of +50 degree days, over 25 degrees above normal. Got up to 58, just two degrees off the all-time record set in 1881. All the snow was gone in two weeks.


EDIT: that was a reply to the OP :)

[annabanana]

2. There are some promising lumps that should turn into crocuses

in my front garden..

I can't wait. This has been a very dispiriting Feb.

[stuntcat]

27. We have two yellow crocuses!!

woooooot, I hope we'll have a whole lot more soon, I just planted them last year, we'll see. This is why crocuses are my FAVorite flowers!!

[deminks]

3. We are in a severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00 pm and the snow is melting.

There is hope.

[stevedeshazer]

4. The male red-winged blackbirds are staking out territories and calling.

The females will soon arrive to greet them.

The Pacific tree frogs were croaking until it snowed a couple of days ago. They are restless for spring, just as we are.

[hedgehog]

8. When the redwinged blackbirds show up here, it usually means the end

of the snow - although one year we had a huge dump right after they arrived. I bet the females were a little ticked of that year!

[Brickbat]

5. Spring hockey starts in a month, here in northern MN.

[The_Commonist]

6. Crocuses starting to pop up in backyard Brooklyn.

And pretty girls on the street are NOT wearing parkas!

[Kingofalldems]

7. I've seen hundreds of robins in the last few days

Local pair of hawks now in yearly mating ritual.

[hedgehog]

9. Robins!?!? Where!?!?

[Kingofalldems]

14. Maryland---DC area.

It's 60 here today, I actually saw robins pulling worms up left and right.

[hedgehog]

16. Well, they're on their way then. They'll be here in a few weeks, i hope!

[raouldukelives]

25. Many robins here in Mendocino, CA nt

[SDuderstadt]

10. Spring training!

Play ball!

[OHdem10]

11. Lotsa Robins hopping about in my yard. We have had one

messy winter here in Ohio.

[onethatcares]

12. we had a male and female cardinal couple show up

in the side yard today.

That's St. Petersburg FL. The temps are a bit high for February though. 80 is a bit much this early.

[Speck Tater]

13. In Oregon we only have two seasons: The rainy season and the second week of August. nt

[shraby]

15. We only have snow in our yard. Got a couple of inches last

night..no robins in that! In Wisconsin

[Cetacea]

17. Spring weather is arriving two weeks earlier than twenty years ago

I have a feeling that the number will increase sharply in the next five years.

[hedgehog]

20. That's true - We used to have snow well into April - real snow!

There was a mound in a local parking lot that would still be there halfway through MAY! My kids and I used to take bets as to when it would melt.

Now, if it snows at all past March 15, we feel put upon!

[HipChick]

18. well I was out with my top down today

and shorts...

that's always a good sign, I'm loathe to go outside if it is cold

[CTyankee]

19. My cardinals have not yet returned but I hear the birds chirping every morning early.

The snow is disappearing from my lawn and the "snow mountains" where plows dumped several feet of snow are shrinking. An email from a friend said crocuses were up in Virginia.

I saw two black birds on a telephone wire this morning who appeared to be bickering with each other. Could that have been a mating dance instead?

[Angry Dragon]

21. I have had cardinals all winter in Minnesota

[hedgehog]

22. I think they hole up in pine woods in the winter, then disperse to nesting areas.

[Tracer]

23. What spring?

Got 5 more inches of snow today -- on top of the 3 feet that's still on the ground.

[William769]

24. Right now in Fort Myers Florida it's 83 !

And has been like this for about two weeks!

[Little Star]

36. Yeah, it sucks here in MA!!! I've had enough!

[LWolf]

26. My ewe is shedding.

She's a hair sheep that doesn't need shearing; she sheds her own wool every spring. I noticed last week that her wool was getting loose; I found a couple of piles she's rubbed off when I was cleaning the barn this morning.

Despite the fact that it was -7 degrees here yesterday morning, and that I have several inches of snow on the ground, with another 5.5 on the way.

That, and despite the heavy winter storms, the hens have begun laying. I don't light their coop during the winter, so they moult and don't lay for a couple of months until they've grown new feathers and the days start getting longer.

AND it's light later, if the sky is clear enough to let any light through the storms.

[NV Whino]

28. The daffys are out here

But the tree frogs have come out and rehibernated so many times, I fear they will move to Hawaii.

[DaDeacon]

29. 78 Degrees and partly cloudy today in Atlanta.

Just got in from playing Soccer with some of the youth after church...
We "old guys" (I'm 33 ) won 4-2
Gotta Love the south!

[BarbaRosa]

30. Wind.

The winds here in the Southwest are starting to stir.

[eleny]

31. Late February - Colorado - we have crocus blooming

[madokie]

32. Grand daughter just brought in some jonquils she picked out in the yard

Brother had wild onions last week so spring is about here.

[pipi_k]

33. Hilltowns of Western Mass...the very earliest signs of spring here...

Farmers are starting to set up their maple sugaring buckets


The weeping willows are turning a delicate shade of green

[Shagbark Hickory]

34. The red maples are flowering here already. About a month ahead of schedule.

LAst couple weeks have been warm.
Even went out on the lake today. Water very cold but warm weather.

[Obamanaut]

35. My blueberry bushes are covered with buds, squash and onion seedlings

are sprouting, easter lillies, gladiolas and other bulbs are coming up.