BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 17 - 07:27 PM

We still don't have leaves on the trees.
The snow, however, is mostly gone, even those expletive-deleted frozen heaps on the curbs and in the parking lots.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: bbc
Date: 13 Apr 17 - 09:45 PM

Today, the daffodils are blooming in Troy, New York & I saw a Cabbage White Butterfly feeding on one! Yup, Spring's on the way!

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 14 Apr 17 - 02:58 AM

The mangos are now on sale in East Ham High Street. A sure sign that summer is coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: ragdall
Date: 15 Apr 17 - 02:05 AM

Two Black-capped Chickadees have been taking turns excavating a hollow in a long dead wild cherry tree in my back yard.

This one was resting on the rosebush beside their work site, which I hope will be a deterrent to predators.
https://flic.kr/p/SB5Wft

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Apr 17 - 04:31 AM

ragdall, that chickadee looks rather like a coal tit. Very attractive little bird.

Our bluebells are out in the garden (British ones, NOT the brash and bullying Spanish variety). Also lily-of-the-valley, and rather a lot of Shepherd's Purse which will have to be given the boot. Alliums are on the brink of bursting forth (I plant those huge ones, called 'Globemaster')

Oak trees in our part of Norfolk (west) are now at last breaking into leaf. They're always the last. Willows all going great guns along the riverbanks. And at Wroxham (start of the Broads) about a trillion swans mugging the tourists at the outdoor cafe down by the bridge. You wouldn't believe the numbers (swans, not tourists!)

Some pretty lambs in the fields around the village. Saw a white ewe with twin black lambs. Unless she'd 'borrowed' them?

And I always know Spring is here when our lovely neighbour daubs Creocote (not Creosote, that's illegal now) all along our shared fence and it stinks. In fact, it brings on my vertigo. Hope it fades soon.

Lastly, my poor husband has begun his dreadful hay fever, due to the oil-seed rape flowers. Farmers round here seem to have gone for it in a big way this year.The fields are such a bright yellow it hurts your eyes. Bees love it, but my husband is doped up with Piriton and has gone through about 20 hankies in a few hours poor man.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Apr 17 - 05:52 AM

Don't suffer Shepherd's Purse to reside in your garden if you grow brassicas, as it harbours clubroot.

I've seen a few male and female orange-tips around but no Brimstones as yet. I'll just pop outside!

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Apr 17 - 09:16 AM

Oooh thanks for that Steve! I didn't know. I actually quite like the weeds in a way, but not if they're going to harbour clubroot.

Our hanging baskets and tubs are in the greenhouse to get established. They've come on tremendously in the past week, (scarlet geraniums in the tubs and purple surfinias in the baskets) But they'll need to be hardened off before we put them outside. I've known late frosts at night in April, and the wind here can be icy cold.

Saw a beautiful thrush in the garden this morning. They're quite uncommon now, so was very pleased to see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 07:05 PM

what do you see this year?

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:19 PM

Really the first day I could go outdoors with no coat or jacket.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 09:58 AM

My lavender seedling survived the winter and the oregano is coming up. The first shoots of chives are peeping through the winter blanket of fallen maple leaves, and the primula is in full yellow bloom.

The hyacinths are budding, despite rabbit aggression, and the daffs will be out by Easter. The lawn is spangled with little blue thingies that I did not plant and whose name I do not know.

The mourning doves are back, the municipal swans are out of durance vile and back on the river, and the cardinals are in a frenzy of sexy singing.

Spring is busting out all over in Stratford.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: peteglasgow
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 05:33 PM

i'm just back in the house from taking our lurcher, Rosa, out for her late piss and shite. i live just along from dorothy and william wordsworth's childhood home and where we go is between the back wall of their garden and the river derwent in cockermouth, cumbria. the moon is so bright tonight = i don't think i have ever seen my shadow so dark and well-defined. the daffodils at the back of the wordsworths' are not in in fact 'a host of golden' tonight, they are many, tall and white, with a shadow for each on the grass. and a couple of brightly glistening turds - now safely deposited in william wordsworth's dog shit bin. i do this most nights - me, the dog, the shite, the house and the river. the moon doesn't always show up and the daffodils will soon be gone. and it won't be as quiet as this forever....i hope

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 10:12 PM

The full moon is certainly majestic tonight against a blue black sky and white clouds of unusual beauty framed by the soundtrack of spring peepers. Its warm with see through trees and might reach 80 tommorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 11:04 PM

Saw my first ladybird of the year.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 20 - 09:36 PM

And I saw my first itty-bitty mosquito.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Senoufou
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 04:06 AM

We've had a succession of warm, sunny days and yesterday I saw ladybirds, bumble bees, an orange-tip butterfly and a red admiral one, but my neighbour-over-the-road said she's found no end of lily beetles in her tubs. She made me smile as she was most indignant that "Two of them were having sex!!!" She squashed them in flagrante delicto.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 05:57 AM

Howlng at the moon at 8 PM is becoming a primal way of making our presnce known. It started in Colorado.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 09:04 PM

I dunno,Spring isn't really here until the ocean and the rivers warm up to the point where the shad begin their spawning run--a couple of weeks to go.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 20 - 11:39 AM

I see buds on some of the bare trees hereabouts.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: EBarnacle
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 12:17 AM

It's officially Spring. Shad are running on the Delaware..

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 11:18 AM

Spring arrived in Missouri last week, but left after two days. It was lovely and warm, then temperatures went back to the 50's by day and 30's by night. Yesterday we went out to pick up BBQ, and I had to wear gloves.

Nonetheless, the daffodils have come and gone, the tulips are up, and my yard is sprinkled with purple and white violets.

I believe there were tornadoes in Arkansas yesterday. A terrible side-effect of spring.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 20 - 09:03 AM

The red and orange Azalis are coming out. I have a rare scented Azalea that is by the front door.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 04:48 PM

The people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Canada are probably more starved for spring than those of us who have already had a taste.

Subject: RE: BS: Early Signs of Spring - northern hemisphere
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 07:00 AM

We had our first swallows (3 of them) of the year yesterday, just about on the usual timing. They could have been here for a couple of days but I've not been outside the garden until I had to go to collect some shopping.

They usually are first seen by a large farming shed at the bottom of our track as that is where they nest each year.

Robin