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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1050 on: 08 March, 2018, 08:48:34 pm »
A few skylarks and a solitary blooming dandelion round York yesterday.

Today, 300,000 starlings (according to local estimates).

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1051 on: 10 March, 2018, 07:48:27 pm »
Oh, I saw a couple of skylarks the other day. Very gratifying! Quite a lot of birdsong when out and about...
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1052 on: 16 March, 2018, 04:11:04 pm »
Neighbour's pear tree has been in full blossom for about a week, mirabelles coming into blossom, apple blossoms still very much in bud.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1053 on: 16 March, 2018, 04:34:22 pm »
My lawn is beginning to grow again.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1054 on: 16 March, 2018, 06:24:40 pm »
My lawn is beginning to grow again.

So is mine.  The bastard.  >:(
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1055 on: 16 March, 2018, 06:49:25 pm »
Daffodils and a small cherry tree in flower today though the weather this weekend might not do do the cherry blossoms much good  :)
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1056 on: 17 March, 2018, 10:27:40 am »
Our cotoneaster has sprouted leaves. I hope the frost tonight doesn't burn them. A pair of blackbirds has started to frequent the garden. Nesting whereabouts unknown.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1057 on: 17 March, 2018, 10:30:16 am »
A couple of days ago, when walking in the Surrey Hills, what sounded like a chiffchaff. The trouble is it only uttered two notes and I wasn't sure. Clearly missing the "repeat and nauseam" marks.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1058 on: 17 March, 2018, 04:42:32 pm »
Blackbird singing at 4.30 am, the silly bugger.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1059 on: 18 March, 2018, 12:31:17 am »
Frogspawn this morning in Priory Park. It wasn't there Wednesday. I doubt that the cold weather will do it any good.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1060 on: 25 March, 2018, 01:48:41 pm »
Rather late this time but I've just heard what I think is the first ice cream van of the season.

Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1061 on: 25 March, 2018, 03:05:38 pm »
Hedgehog turds

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1062 on: 25 March, 2018, 03:24:31 pm »
First lawn mowing session of the year.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1063 on: 25 March, 2018, 07:01:11 pm »
The classic cars are out of hibernation, too.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1064 on: 25 March, 2018, 10:47:21 pm »
By bonsai cherry trees in blossom
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1065 on: 25 March, 2018, 11:04:34 pm »
By bonsai cherry trees in blossom

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1066 on: 26 March, 2018, 10:05:23 am »
Bees on the violets by the workshop door.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1067 on: 26 March, 2018, 10:59:40 am »
Big columns of motorbikes.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1068 on: 27 March, 2018, 07:47:33 am »
First tick of the year on one of the dogs.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1069 on: 31 March, 2018, 08:30:29 pm »
This is the first year that I can remember in which I haven't heard a chiffchaff before the end of March.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1070 on: 04 April, 2018, 08:47:12 pm »
The springlike day happened yesterday. All the celandines that had been slowly accumulating as burst buds, but not yet worth opening up, woke up to the warmth & sun to produce carpets of yellow on the roadside verges. Likewise the primroses, whose flowers took over the leafy clumps in the roadside woodland as much as on the verges. I spotted 3 carpets of dog violets by Pathlow that were about a metre wide. Add in a couple of patches of roadside wood anemones and lots of blackthorn blossom much further open than the hawthorn leaves, but had been under wraps, plus a few dandelions. It was spring in a hurry; I struggle to remember a year of such spectacular spring roadside flowers.

Meanwhile, first chiffchaff was doubted - I still think it was a great tit improvising - but later 4 other songs were unmistakable. We heard 3 skylarks confidently proclaiming their territories.

This morning the suburban birds were singing enthustically. The flowers had shut up shop. They were wise - it rained.




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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1071 on: 07 April, 2018, 02:00:40 pm »
Okay, I'm calling it: Antihistamines and steroids season has begun.

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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1072 on: 07 April, 2018, 04:35:39 pm »
Blackbird singing at 4.30 am, the silly bugger.

I was woken up at a similar time this morning by a nightingale in full voice. Must have been very close to the house as it was bloody loud.

Apparently, the nearby woods is one of the top ten places in the UK to hear nightingales, so I should probably count myself lucky rather than being annoyed at having my sleep disturbed.

Also heard the first woodpecker of the year a few days ago.
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1073 on: 07 April, 2018, 04:45:33 pm »
We saw a swallow today!
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Re: Signs of Spring
« Reply #1074 on: 07 April, 2018, 06:15:56 pm »
Snap!  Well, two flew over the Cathedral Close at Lichfield at lunchtime today. Peregrines mating on the main spire as well.