First Signs of Spring

[Reynard]

We didn’t turn the heating on at all for the first time this year yesterday!

I'm running the whole house on a single storage heater right now. Haven't used the solid fuel heating since Wednesday. House is sitting at an eminently comfortable 18.5C

 

[geocycle]

First chiffchaff yesterday, they are always a backdrop to spring.

 

[Drago]

The rain seemed slightly warmer this morning, a sure sign of spring on the way.

 

[cyberknight]

i wish it would stay dry enough so i can mow the grass

 

[Alex321]

I mowed my back lawn for the first time this year today. Still rather damper than I liked, but did it a setting higher and it wasn't too bad.

 

[Slick]

Its all happening now, as I was golfing this afternoon and saw a rather confused looking hedgehog making Its way across open ground along the 18th fairway. I know your not supposed to interfere with nature but there's a lot can go wrong in that space for a hedgehog in daylight, so I lifted it to the side in some shrubbery. He seemed to like it.

 

[Gillstay]

Its all happening now, as I was golfing this afternoon and saw a rather confused looking hedgehog making Its way across open ground along the 18th fairway. I know your not supposed to interfere with nature but there's a lot can go wrong in that space for a hedgehog in daylight, so I lifted it to the side in some shrubbery. He seemed to like it.

If a hedgehog is out in daylight its already in trouble. Well done. I often take them to hedgehog rescue when they are out and sadly a few have not made it to be returned.

 

[ColinJ]

I found a dead fly in my bath the other day, and a live one elsewhere in the house today. A bit early in the year for them, I would have thought?

I have no idea where they came from because there are no windows open. I had a fly infestation last year and I had no idea where they came from either... Hopefully, this isn't leading up to me being re-crowned Lord of the Flies!

 

[Mike_P]

I've had a couple of flies in the house this year. Think they sneak in when a door is opened.

 

[Asa Post]

I found a dead fly in my bath the other day, and a live one elsewhere in the house today. A bit early in the year for them, I would have thought?

I have no idea where they came from because there are no windows open. I had a fly infestation last year and I had no idea where they came from either... Hopefully, this isn't leading up to me being re-crowned Lord of the Flies!

You might have a few maggots hiding somewhere that are starting to hatch out

 

[ColinJ]

You might have a few maggots hiding somewhere that are starting to hatch out

I assumed that the eggs had all hatched last year, but apparently not!

It is still a complete mystery where the originals hatched. I searched everywhere and couldn't find any food dropped on the floor. The food recycling bags are kept in my back yard, not the house.

It was horrible when it happened - no flies to literally hundreds overnight!!

 

[T4tomo]

Its the Vernal Equinox today. Whilst defo not the first sign, its pretty definitive as signs of spring go....

 

[oldwheels]

I assumed that the eggs had all hatched last year, but apparently not!

It is still a complete mystery where the originals hatched. I searched everywhere and couldn't find any food dropped on the floor. The food recycling bags are kept in my back yard, not the house.

It was horrible when it happened - no flies to literally hundreds overnight!!

A few years ago we had a plague of flies for weeks and nearly every house in the town was affected. Nobody ever admitted to it but it was thought they came from the landfill site about a mile away which was being restructured from the old town dump into something which was better in some way.
With a good wind they would have been carried our direction.

 

[biggs682]

Clumps of cowslip spotted on our walk through the local meadow over the weekend

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I wasn't expecting to see a solitary (and rather tired) poppy by Millwall football ground.