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I was looking out my back door earlier.

it is a kind of dreary , chilly, wet and drizzly day here.

well..., I thought it was anyway..., until I saw the cardinals!

they were feeding on some holiday gourd seeds that I had thrown into a flower bed a few weeks ago.

then I saw the bluejays! ....bright and beautiful as always.

then there was a catbird! either that or a mockingbird, it hard to tell the difference. (we had a mocking bird that came to our last place year after year. he would sit on one particular powerline every year and go thru all his calls. my daughter and I enjoyed it greatly)

...and there were numerous other species! sparrows and grackles all a cackle!

they just appeared this morning.

February is not the usual time when things migrate thru here. everything is pretty much resident by this time.

as crazy as the weather has been, I m not even sure if they are heading north or south. probably south, getting away from the snow in new England, but who knows?

they all looked healthy. maybe they are heading north early?

oh well, it was nice to see them.

go north young man! ...it s melting.

go north young man! ...it s melting.

That was the begining of last week.
Been pretty much below freezing this week with 8" of snow this past friday, another 5" yesterday, more tonight/tomorrow (1-2" predicted), under 20F temps coming later in the week. Winter may have finally arrived.

it has dropped to the teens for a few days , a few times here, but it has been back to the 60 s, and even the 70 s , in between.

the lawn has almost completely re greened, and I noticed this morning that the daffodils are popping up.

the tulip shoots are still up and haven t died, but they haven t grown either....

maybe it s spring?

My daffodils popped up back at the end of Dec. They've been in a holding pattern but haven't browned nor wilted so maybe they will pick up where they left off when spring does arrive.

60 F here the next two days......

then fifties next week....

go north young man, go north.....

oldr_n_wsr wrote:My daffodils popped up back at the end of Dec. They've been in a holding pattern but haven't browned nor wilted so maybe they will pick up where they left off when spring does arrive.

Our daffs are open... climate change plus el nino means we ave had an extremely mild winter. We already have robins, wrens and goldfinches looking for nest sites and territorially singing. A whole month earlier than normal, I can only hope we don't get any hard frosts or snowstorms in the next few weeks.

Nice to see you posting again Daisy!

Gob wrote:Nice to see you posting again Daisy!

Sometimes it's nice to take a break from these nutjobs

Daisy wrote:

Gob wrote:Nice to see you posting again Daisy!

Sometimes it's nice to take a break from these nutjobs

I prefer to think myself a whackadoodle rather than a nutjob.

wesw those species are all year-round resident in your area, which also hosts many winter-only residents from the north. Likely nobody's migrating yet? Audubon will let us know, surely.

.there are migrant populations and resident populations of these species. they behave differently.

I observe and sometimes report.

I am in tune with the eastern shore.

I can tell you what fish are biting by looking at which trees are blooming as spring progresses.

but maybe I m wrong....

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but maybe I m wrong....

The acorns lied to me this year. They said a hard winter. I know there is still time left, but this one is a bust so far.