Signs of Spring

[surfdude]

We has had a flutterby in the garding. It fluttered by too quickly to be indentified.....

it was simon

 

[gbb]

Signs of spring ?...looking out of the workshop, there's a row of maybe 20 Poplar trees, and there's about 20 or 30 woodpigeon sitting out there....its like something out of The Birds

 

[Salad Dodger]

Signs of Spring?

• My bike emerged from winter hibernation and I managed 12 miles on it without dying.

• The grass in our back garden is growing by about an inch a day. It's some sort of triffid grass that reacts to sunlight by growing hugely.

• Massacred Cut the grass and then took it to the local tip - only to find myself in a queue behind huge numbers of other people disposing of bags of their own triffid grass.

• Itchy eyes and runny nose from adverse reaction to the triffid grass

• Wickes leaflet dropped through the door. Found myself looking through it to see if they sold Astroturf

 

[summerdays]

Well the snowdrops are over, the daffs are out, and the house sparrows are making a lot of noise and mess, my willow seems to know it is spring and I'm hoping when I come home today that my Magnolia will have opened its first flower. And the blackbirds seem to be getting very vocal.

But it is still too early for me to shed many layers though the bamboo tights thing has been ignored now for a week. And I have occasionally shed some of the layers at the top. Still yet to bare any flesh other than hands and face, though I have seen quite a few others in shorts (on the other hand one of the Dad's that drops off a small child at school wore shorts right throughout the winter so he doesn't count.)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Fly-tippers are out in force - scattered and torn bin bags make a lovely addition to any Cotswold hedgerow.

 

[perplexed]

Well I don't think its' properly Spring yet.

I haven't seen my first shirtless chav.

 

[BSRU]

A sure sign of spring is the sudden increase in smokers standing outside the building where I work.

 

[asterix]

Been hearing a cuckoo for the last few days. The swallows came on Tuesday, or at least that's when I saw the first one. What's more I am going to have to put a fly screen up and that's way too early.

 

[661-Pete]

We heard a cuckoo in France, while it was still March. No nightingales yet, though. And the cowslips and Early Spider orchids were out in profusion - plus a few swallowtail butterflies.

Back here, plenty of cowslips on the Downs last Sunday. And we saw several brimstone and orange-tip butterflies, also the odd Peacock (butterfly I mean). And the early signs of bluebells.

I think Spring has got its timing just about right, this year.

 

[Fnaar]

We get hoosemartins on the hoose every year... should be sometime soon...

 

[asterix]

I think Spring has got its timing just about right, this year.

Spring will be very pleased to hear you say so!

 

[Glow worm]

Just an update to my list, fantastic to have them back.

Swallows do generally seem a little late this year though I did spot quite an early one over Newmarket High Street of all places on April 1st.
I saw the first swallows in our village here yesterday and the first house martins (2) as well. Swifts already seen up the road but I don't expect them here for another week or so.

 

[Trembler49]

Swallows have been with us for about four weeks now. Swifts have just arrived and the Bee Eaters have been here a week.

Storks are nesting and raising little storks.

Today was 27C.

Its a tough life in the Algarve.

 

[Silver Fox]

Riding at this time of year, it just makes me grateful to have my health and fitness and to be alive.