Author Topic: Signs of Spring (Read 224010 times)

Flite · « **Reply #1650 on:** 23 April, 2023, 12:48:08 pm »

First adder I've seen this year. Lovely male about 60cm long.
Just curled up basking, warming up enough to eat and get moving I hope.
Took no notice of me.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1651 on:** 23 April, 2023, 04:09:59 pm »

Heard a cuckoo this morning on a walk along the Waal near Druten in NL

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1652 on:** 23 April, 2023, 07:27:24 pm »

We are in rural Pembrokeshire. Lots of swallows and martins but I’m rather disappointed not to have herd a cwcw.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1653 on:** 29 November, 2023, 01:04:41 pm »

Big buds are breaking on fig tree next door.
Edgware London 29 November 2023.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1654 on:** 02 December, 2023, 07:14:47 pm »

Our local song thrush is starting to mark his territory.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1655 on:** 27 December, 2023, 12:01:18 pm »

On the Thursday before Christmas, someone showed me a photo of a daffodil growing in their garden, take that morning in one of the more exposed parts of Bristol (just off the Downs).

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1656 on:** 30 January, 2024, 05:09:23 pm »

There is a blackbird singing at 5.10pm behind Chateau Wowbagger.

Basil · « **Reply #1657 on:** 30 January, 2024, 06:03:29 pm »

Spotted my first celandine of the year today.

Basil · « **Reply #1658 on:** 31 January, 2024, 08:50:26 am »

Quote from: Basil on 30 January, 2024, 06:03:29 pm

Spotted my first celandine of the year today.

T42 · « **Reply #1659 on:** 31 January, 2024, 02:11:42 pm »

Anti-frog-migration netting strung along one side of the road in the forest near here. Rishi would be proud.

rafletcher · « **Reply #1660 on:** 31 January, 2024, 08:53:55 pm »

We have aconites, Thomasinias and snowdrops in flower. And now we helibores and crocuses, plus the daphne. And the blackthorn is in blossom.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1661 on:** 16 February, 2024, 04:17:26 pm »

I’ve just heard the first dulcet chimes of a ice cream van.
It’s the last day of half-term, so I might have missed others.
Greensleeves...

cycleman · « **Reply #1662 on:** 16 February, 2024, 06:56:01 pm »

Crocues and daffodils in hershall Park this afternoon

https://photos.app.goo.gl/sde4bgD5tvSUNfS48

graculus · « **Reply #1663 on:** 18 February, 2024, 03:14:43 pm »

Frogspawn in our pond (Wolverhampton). Must have been very recent as it has not yet swollen to full size. They kept very quiet about it.

cycleman · « **Reply #1664 on:** 18 February, 2024, 06:09:54 pm »

In a park in Slough

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UeXpGa3SPjzjb8zh6

De Sisti · « **Reply #1665 on:** 18 February, 2024, 06:35:22 pm »

Birdsong in and around my back garden this weekend (Sat/Sun, 17/18 Feb).

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1666 on:** 18 February, 2024, 06:36:10 pm »

First larks and lambs of the year.

slowfen · « **Reply #1667 on:** 19 February, 2024, 07:10:14 am »

Hedgehog out and about

Tomsk · « **Reply #1668 on:** 19 February, 2024, 08:30:54 am »

Yesterday: smooth newt in the back garden - very sluggish though. Squashed frog out on an Essex lane. Also first icecream van in the Recreation Ground over the road, which always sets next-door's dogs off howling!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1669 on:** 19 February, 2024, 12:22:22 pm »

Quite a bit of hawthorn, or maybe it's blackthorn, in blossom. And shedding already!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1670 on:** 19 February, 2024, 01:26:38 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 19 February, 2024, 12:22:22 pm

Quite a bit of hawthorn, or maybe it's blackthorn, in blossom. And shedding already!

It will be blackthorn this early. There's a reason hawthorn is also known as the may tree.

Flite · « **Reply #1671 on:** 19 February, 2024, 05:04:21 pm »

Blackthorn flowers before the leaves come out.
Hawthorn leaves come out before the flowers.

cycleman · « **Reply #1672 on:** 19 February, 2024, 06:31:47 pm »

Definitely more morning birdsong..I haven't seen any sign of nesting yet but it currently feels very spring like so some birdis may be fooled

Jurek · « **Reply #1673 on:** 25 February, 2024, 12:07:44 pm »

Magnolia is flowering in the garden of a house in my road.

cycleman · « **Reply #1674 on:** 25 February, 2024, 07:32:55 pm »

Cherry trees in blossom locally