First Signs of Spring

[T4tomo]

I cut my lawn for first time this year on saturday

 

[Accy cyclist]

The days are getting longer and er, that's about it.

 

[ColinJ]

The days are getting longer and er, that's about it.

The rain isn't quite as cold!

 

[ricknmorty28]

I am not feeling any spring with the state of this weather, raining windy and cold!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Haven’t seen any geese for a couple of weeks, they must have moved on.

 

[oldwheels]

Touroid wandering along the middle of the street glaring at cars trying get past.
It is not a pedestrian zone and there is a pavement.

 

[geocycle]

Haven’t seen any geese for a couple of weeks, they must have moved on.

They are still around although not as many. Looking out now I can see greylag, Canada and pink foot, some of whom will migrate. Whooper swans were around last week. Ospreys are starting to come back which is always exciting. Last year the male at Foulshaw arrived before it’s long standing mate, then a younger female arrived testing his loyalty before his mate finally turned up!

 

[Reynard]

Well, the narcissi that grow in a little hollow pocket in the trunk of my 150-something-year-old ash tree have put in an appearance and are flowering. How the blazes they got up there, I've no idea (squirrels most like), but they've done so every spring for the last decade or so. It's just so brilliantly bonkers.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cyclists are now out in shorts, windproof and gloves no longer needed.

 

[ColinJ]

Cyclists are now out in shorts, windproof and gloves no longer needed.

Some have been riding like that up here throughout the winter! Also, young posties doing their rounds in shorts, including one evidently frost-proof man who wasn't even wearing socks!!!

As for me - I was badly chilled by cold headwinds along the Exe just a week ago despite wearing a gilet, arm warmers, gloves and overshoes.

 

[Chief Broom]

Loads of toads on my regular single track route, had to swerve to avoid one. Whooper swans going over heading north.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The flimsy purple Crocuses outside my flat's door only had two weeks life, then the housing association workmen mowed them down the other day!

 

[Beebo]

We didn’t turn the heating on at all for the first time this year yesterday!

 

[ColinJ]

We didn’t turn the heating on at all for the first time this year yesterday!

I looked up what date it was for me here last year... About 5 weeks after this!

I am using the heating less now though, turning it on after I get up rather than needing it to warm the house before I get up, and turning it off 2 hours before going to bed.

 

[Slick]

Finally, lambs in the field and the first woodpecker in the trees. Hallelujah