Author Topic: Signs of Spring  (Read 208720 times)

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1150 on: 16 February, 2019, 12:03:11 pm »
Our earliest daffs are now out.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1151 on: 16 February, 2019, 02:01:00 pm »
Someone was mowing their lawn the other day.

Mine gets mowed 2 or 3 times a year whether it needs it or not.

IRTA someone was moving their lawn. 
 ???
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1152 on: 16 February, 2019, 07:38:45 pm »
First aspirated midge of the year.   >:(

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1153 on: 16 February, 2019, 08:30:27 pm »
I have heard two blackbirds singing during the past week, one of them at 4am.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1154 on: 16 February, 2019, 08:38:57 pm »
Big group of Lapwings flying up Weardale

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1155 on: 17 February, 2019, 02:00:02 am »
Someone was mowing their lawn the other day.

Mine gets mowed 2 or 3 times a year whether it needs it or not.

Our grass has griz...

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1156 on: 17 February, 2019, 09:42:25 am »
Snowdrops in my neighbour's back garden.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1157 on: 17 February, 2019, 10:27:18 am »
Skylark near Selby yesterday. Don't think I've heard one this early in the year before.

I hear them all year round up here.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1158 on: 17 February, 2019, 10:58:00 am »
First aspirated midge of the year.   >:(

Hmidge?

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1159 on: 17 February, 2019, 04:25:00 pm »
Even a little midge has aspirations of becoming a mosquito.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1160 on: 17 February, 2019, 04:25:30 pm »
That's the second lot of washing this year dried entirely outside.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1161 on: 17 February, 2019, 07:03:57 pm »
And I cut the grass this afternoon  :)
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1162 on: 20 February, 2019, 04:16:56 pm »
At Nieffern today:



We have storks all year round, but now they're nesting.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1163 on: 20 February, 2019, 05:37:25 pm »
First ice cream van of the year!

That IS early!

Ours will probably return in 2-3 weeks' time...

I was expecting the dulcet chimes to return this week as it is half term.

Nada.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1164 on: 20 February, 2019, 06:47:49 pm »
A few daffodils flowering in Priory Park, and goldcrests singing. No sign of any frogspawn yet.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1165 on: 20 February, 2019, 06:48:21 pm »
At Nieffern today:



We have storks all year round, but now they're nesting.
:thumbsup:
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1166 on: 20 February, 2019, 06:52:03 pm »
At Nieffern today:



We have storks all year round, but now they're nesting.
Congratulations, didn't know you were expecting - boy or girl ?
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1167 on: 20 February, 2019, 11:38:22 pm »
Yesterday as I cycled slowly up a hill near Aylesbury, a pair of boxing hares in the field to my right. A mad sight.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1168 on: 21 February, 2019, 07:24:33 am »
First ice cream van of the year!

That IS early!

Ours will probably return in 2-3 weeks' time...

I was expecting the dulcet chimes to return this week as it is half term.

Nada.
Ours was round last night, about six.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1169 on: 21 February, 2019, 08:26:52 am »
At Nieffern today:



We have storks all year round, but now they're nesting.
Congratulations, didn't know you were expecting - boy or girl ?

Nah, a utility pole.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1170 on: 21 February, 2019, 09:37:41 am »
Skylarks singing for the first time this year this morning. We have loads in the fields round our village, I miss their song when it suddenly stops in autumn.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1172 on: 22 February, 2019, 11:20:21 pm »

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1173 on: 22 February, 2019, 11:49:03 pm »
Skylarks singing for the first time this year this morning. We have loads in the fields round our village, I miss their song when it suddenly stops in autumn.
On Monday I too heard my first skylarks. We were riding out of Stratford on the Loxley road. One was singing high enough to raise my spirits. The second, on the north side of the road, rose into the air in song, but hesitated at about 3 time the height of the hedge and sank back to the ground. Possibly the sight of a couple of geriatric cyclists watching was too much to cope with.

I was perplexed that the hedges on the sides of that bit of Loxley Road were covered with green bird-proof netting. I learned today that the netting was probably put there by property developers hoping to pre-empt conflicts between building more houses and displacing nesting birds. I need to stir things a bit in Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

We enjoyed a third skylark singing over Wellesbourne airfield.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1174 on: 23 February, 2019, 06:31:24 pm »
Brimstone, bats and tiger moth caterpillar today.