It's spring
beverick
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The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
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beverick wrote:The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Nope not until the 21st March Officially0 -
Please tell me this is a joke? Freezing sleet here today.0
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beverick wrote:The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Snowdrops and blue tits don't sound like East Timor, but given freezing sleet it doesn't sound like East Yorkshire either.
2 inches of snow and snowing heavily at our office on Scotland.Where the neon madmen climb0 -
beverick wrote:The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Maybe 21st March is the first official day of spring but it's around about now that the natural world starts waking up. I haven't seen any blooming snowdrops yet but the shoots of snowdrops and crocuses (croci?) have just emerged and the great tits have started their treetop clear piping 2-note call. It must be an early-mating song though I'm no expert, I've only noticed that they do this around this time of the year.
The weather though is still mid-winter, even if the temperature rose to a grey rainy 5 degrees today.
I just saw a kingfisher - they don't usually come as far downstream as here when the tide's in and the river's in spate. Must be really hungry. They always make me think of summer.0 -
It was perfect cycling weather this afternoon (okay a bit cold, but...).
I was stuck in work.Ben
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Slow-N-Old wrote:beverick wrote:The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Nope not until the 21st March Officially
Depends which definition you go by.
Met office say first day of spring is 1 March;
March 21 is the first day after the vernal equinox so folklore and tradition take this to be the first day of Spring.
However, 24 March quarter day (aka Lady Day in UK) is also the historical date on which Spring rents and taxes were due for the 'spring quarter'. If this is the case then Spring is apparently 4 days long.
Personally, I prefer the agricultural/growing calendar. Feb is early Spring, March Mid Spring and April late Spring, May early summer, june mid and july late. Autumn and winter follow the same pattern.
However you define it, the blue tits are still beginning to nest in my back garden.
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I prefer 1st March as The first day of spring, it's easier that way. Mar,Apr,May spring. etc etc
dave
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I don't know why they always call it the first day of spring? It should really be called mid spring, seeing as the sun is midway between mid winter and mid summer.Slow-N-Old wrote:beverick wrote:The snow drops are flowering in the bottom garden and I've just noticed a blue-tit take a beak full of moss into one of the nesting boxes.
Yeaahh, it's spring at last!
Bob
Nope not until the 21st March Officially0 -
Don't snowdrops usually come out in late Jan / early Feb? Hardly a sign of spring. The blue tit was probably just trying to get some extra insulation in their house with more snow and low temperatures forecast
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Pross wrote:Don't snowdrops usually come out in late Jan / early Feb? Hardly a sign of spring. The blue tit was probably just trying to get some extra insulation in their house with more snow and low temperatures forecast
Listening to Radio 4 during that half-awake stage this morning, I heard someone say that spring was 4 weeks late this year but that when it gets going it will be a ''beauty.'' What they meant, I imagine, was that the early indicators of spring, such as snowdrops, were late this year. I think of the seasons as overlapping, so that part of spring is already under way while the weather remains resolutely wintry.
They also mentioned that the deer population, chiefly in Scotland, would take a big hit this year (despite some culls having been abandoned) because such an extended snow covering, which makes feeding much more difficult, is highly unusual. They said it was a ''once in a decade'' winter, but I reckon it's been much more than a decade since we had such a harsh winter.0 -
1981 I remember being as bad as this winter but nothing after then has come close to this winter.0
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:idea: Let's all go camping in Beverick's garden."There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."0
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Its spring when I see daffodils and I havent yet.0
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"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."0
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Warmer? Due to some fat bint with her sausage fingers wrapped around a plastic pint glass? Not yet no 0
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Isn't it spring when we see the 1st thread about shaving for 2010?0
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Didn't feel at all spring-like on Thursday, The Boss & I called it a day at 3.30, when the snow was settling. He said that there was a good 4" down when he got home Hereford way!
-5 forecast for tonight.Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0 -
Definately the first signs of spring are appearing with the crocuses starting to flower.0
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Out here in sunny Slavutich the thaw is on its way, snow melts it gets warmer, then it freezes for a couple of days then gets warmer again, floods next, oh joys.0
