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Post by breezygardener on Feb 27, 2015 19:26:15 GMT -5
Not only are the birds singing (including the Bluebirds), but another sign of impending Spring is that while during the Fall & Winter months I can have 8-10 male Cardinals peacefully dining together at my deck feeders, now they're spending more & more time beating the daylights out of each other - lol!
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Post by datgirl on Feb 28, 2015 8:05:28 GMT -5
I heard the Cardinals singing for the first time this morning. Yep, a sure sign of spring around here.
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Post by binnylou on Feb 28, 2015 8:38:03 GMT -5
I heard the Cardinals singing for the first time this morning. Yep, a sure sign of spring around here. "Our" cardinals are doing what breezy described...spending all of their time and energy fighting/claiming territory. And this behavior changed just about a week ago.
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Post by breezygardener on Feb 28, 2015 15:52:49 GMT -5
Another new sign of Spring a little while ago. Mourning Doves cooing - something they do not do during the Fall & Winter months.
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Post by breezygardener on Mar 5, 2015 18:12:21 GMT -5
Yet another sign today - even though it was during our mini-blizzard, which left us with a solid 8"+, along with temps supposed to drop to 3 degrees tonight.
A male Red-winged Blackbird visited our deck feeders today, along with about a zillion other poor birds looking for nourishment in this awful weather.
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Post by claude on Mar 19, 2015 10:22:01 GMT -5
I'm hearing my wind chimes screaming in advance of the northern front coming in the next few days..but the trees are trying to bud..you can see it from a distance. I was up at 2:00am trying to see the northern lights last night..sometimes we can get a glimpse and it's beautiful..so beautiful! Solar eclipse this weekend and more solar effects as well. I'll wait patiently for spring if the heavenly skies continue with their displays..
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Post by gakaren on Mar 19, 2015 12:12:53 GMT -5
Not sure if I can remember all that is going on here right now, but I'll give it a go....and a warning, I may repeat myself!
Daffs are done, the red buds are about done, the dogwoods are starting to pop, my flowering crab apples are starting to put out blooms, the neighbor's pear tree is done blooming and is nearly full out in leaves, the live oaks are all showing new leaves, my lady banks thornless yellow roses are almost full out, the wisteria is showing flowers this morning, the bridal wreath spireas are starting to open their blooms, the iris are popping up, the coneflowers have leaves coming out, the volunteer poppies are getting big and close to putting up bloom stems, the native columbines have been blooming for about a week now, the azaleas have open blooms near the bottom and the tops are about to open too, the weigela are nearly leafed out so blooms will follow quickly, a bunch of Asian/oriental lilies are up and one has a tall stem, the amaryllis are up, the Brugmansias have leaves, the blackberry lilies are coming up pretty good as well as the Formosa lilies, day lilies are growing and will soon have bloom stems, I saw a leaf on my "in ground" bougainvillea yesterday, the crinum lilies are starting to put up new leaves, roses are greening up nicely, the clematis have bloom buds, and I saw a bloom stem starting on something else yesterday and can't remember what it was now! That's all I can recall right now.
In town the fringe flower shrubs are full out too and something else I don't know the name of...it's a shrub.
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 19, 2015 15:22:34 GMT -5
I was up at 2:00am trying to see the northern lights last night..sometimes we can get a glimpse and it's beautiful..so beautiful! What? You can see the Northern Lights in CT? I never knew that. I have always wanted to see them. I am so jealous!
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Post by claude on Mar 21, 2015 7:18:56 GMT -5
Conditions need to be perfect for the viewing. It happens, albet rarely. I've seen them twice form my back porch ???? the first time I asked my co worker, " if I didn't know any better I would say that we were viewing the northern lights". Then the paper ran a story. So many other celestial happenings we miss here because of cloud cover or weather conditions. I live on the top of a mountain. The highest point for this little NW CT corner. It snows here while it's raining in the town valley. We need to have a solar flare plus a strong northern cold front to see it..but I look to the north every night, hoping to catch a glimpse.
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Post by peasonearth on Mar 21, 2015 9:04:41 GMT -5
The grackles and red-wing blackbirds came back to us this past week. My least favorite sign of spring...
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Post by OregonRed on Mar 21, 2015 10:34:15 GMT -5
oh my goodness, love that avatar!
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Post by peasonearth on Mar 21, 2015 12:01:50 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by claude on Mar 21, 2015 13:31:29 GMT -5
This morning...it's still flurrying..no sign of spring here in CT
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Post by desertwoman on Mar 21, 2015 13:36:37 GMT -5
What a great image, claude.
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Post by claude on Mar 21, 2015 13:39:02 GMT -5
My first w photobucket!
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