Yeah, well, the trouble with that is that they are very seldom seen anyway. Unless you lived in or near the bush you wouldn't see them at any time, except in the zoo. I've only ever seen one - it wandered into my aunt's garden by mistake. She had trees and bushland behind her property.

We don't have really well-defined seasons here in the temperate zone. In Sydney, winter is somewhat cooler, and a lot of the days are quite pleasant. You people who have snow, ice and blizzards wouldn't really call it winter at all. Up in the mountains it is a different matter. Occasionally there is snow in the Blue Mountains, but only rarely. We have the Snowy Mountains, where the ski resorts are, but the majority of us are either on the coast, in one of our major cities, or further inland, where it is likely to be hotter.

There really isn't any animal that I can think of that appears at the beginning of spring here, unless you count the houseflies. If we get an unseasonally warm day in winter, some of them will hatch out, then when it cools down again, they can be seen walking around, all sluggish from the cold.

Somehow, I can't warm to the idea of HOUSEFLY DAY!