Is It Spring Yet...?

[Silverlady]

It's been raining for 2 days now, but I don't care.  I finally saw robins today. YAY!

The snow is no longer piled 5 feet high on the back deck, and I can see past the end of my driveway when backing the car out.  And the temps are supposed to be 60 degrees by the end of the week!  WOO HOO

I know it's only mid -March, and snow is not out of the question right through til the beginning of May here in the mountains of northeast PA, but I don't care. I can't wait to dig in the mud (uh, I mean dirt) again!   

On a side note - I've been told that robins don't really fly south for the winter, but stay right here and gather in large groups in open fields ... somewhere.  Damned if I know where these so called fields are???

Happy Spring!  Any one else have Spring Fever?     

[Andrew]

I have a problem with the robins.  The males are very territorial in the spring, and government buildings tend to have windows that are relatively mirror-like.  So, every spring I get to hear thump after thump as young male robins charge the windows to defend their territory from an apparent rival.  This goes on every day that it is sunny until some point in late June.

[Psycho Circus]

No spring here. The trees still have no leaves and it still gets really icy at night when the temperature drops. I feel like I've been living in Russia for the past 6 months!

[Mr. DS]

I haven't seen the sun for about a week now.  Prior to that we were enjoying mid 50s temps which saw me going to work jacket-less for about a week.   Last night brought heavy rains and hurricane like gusts that shook the house.  I did see a few robins a few weeks ago while driving.  Two males as a matter of fact on the side of the road.  Maybe they're a couple, who knows? 

[Jack]

I saw a robin in our front yard today.  Which reminds me, we've got a stupid robin that attacks our bedroom window for about a month every spring.  I suppose he'll be showing up soon enough.  Unless he's given himself brain damage.  It's 63 here today.   

[indianasmith]

Our pear tree is in full bloom, and I grilled ribs outside for supper.

[Silverlady]

After reading some your follow-up posts, I never knew that robins were so crazy/aggressive/suicidal!   

[Leah]

well, Friday I saw a dove and a crow have a bird fight in flight!

[Newt]

I saw a small flock of Tundra Swans flying north on Thursday.  That's a sure sign; we usually gets hundreds so these would have been the advance scouts...also get Snow Geese passing through headed that way.  They stop over in the flooded fields and the noise can be deafening.

[trekgeezer]

Robins have been back here for a couple of weeks and I saw a cardinal the other day.  The mocking birds are nesting already.

I'm just glad the temp is back up near normal (low 60's F).  I was out yesterday trimming my oak trees, so I don't get clonked by low hanging limbs when I have to start mowing. 

Lots of sun does wonders for my perspective.

[The Burgomaster]

It's been raining like a bastard here for a couple days.  Lot's of reports of flooded basements (houses, schools, businesses) and power outages.  Very gray and dreary.

[Mr. DS]

According to the forcast, I can go back to being jacket-less in RI again for at least the next 10 days.   

[Andrew]

It's been raining like a bastard here for a couple days.  Lot's of reports of flooded basements (houses, schools, businesses) and power outages.  Very gray and dreary.

My mother is having problems with that.  There is so much groundwater that the sump pump cannot keep up with it.  She called me last night to ask if she could use the wet/dry vac I bought her a few years back to suck up the extra water (small pools of 1/4" - 1/2" from her description) that are collecting in the basement.

We had so much wind and rain the other night that it came in around the window frames.  The wind was something like 50 mph gusts, and the rain was coming down in buckets.

[Paquita]

The spider in the bathroom came out to check for his shadow and then he shouted "It's spring m-fers!!!!" and laughed wildly at me.

[flackbait]

I know its spring because the Canadian Geese are honking non-stop now that they are back up north. There's a pond near by my place and a couple of them start honking at  7 am and will just randomly go into honking spurts for the rest of the day. I really wish I just heard other birds chirping instead.