O/T Early Spring?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2009

I been seeing signs of a early spring, cows losing hair early, skunks, and canada geese. 2 weeks ago i was going through my MF 1155 and I thought I heard robins, I thought I was going Nuts. I was talking to the guy who owns the corner store, he said he had a bunch of robins in his back yard. Also the snow plowing has realy slowed down. Have you seen any early signs in your area.

Haywood · Feb 18, 2009

Just some wintertime squirrel activity here.

We still have a foot of very dense compacted snow on on the ground. Below Normal Temps.

Jeff-oh · Feb 18, 2009

Sunday, evening I hear the spring peepers starting they springtime song.

Jeff

GordoSD · Feb 18, 2009

Yeah it's warming up real well. Was a cozy 8 degrees lst night.

Gordo

Jeff-oh · Feb 18, 2009

A spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern USA and Canada.

In case you did not know.

rrlund · Feb 18, 2009

Lots of skunks around. Saw a possum about 3 weeks ago.

cj in wisconsin · Feb 18, 2009

Calling for ten below zero here tonight, not many birds chirping round here.

hay · Feb 18, 2009

I don't know your location, Turke Bros. Farms, but here in se texas, i was always taught to look for dogwood blossoming out and pecan tree fully leafing out before the weather is really settled for spring. sometimes, i believe the animals can get 'frisky' before spring and that can fool ya. robins and squirrels been feeding heavily last few days and that makes me tend to watch for more cold weather here. good luck to ya.

Lou · Feb 18, 2009

I did smell a skunk during a warm spell about a week ago, seems very early for central New York.

I could make a political joke about this but I wont.

RockyMo · Feb 18, 2009

I gave up on the robins years ago, seems they must like to play in the snow cause every year around here they get snowed on. My neighbor also has a maple tree that buds out very early every year. The tree then usually gets all the buds frozen off. We get a few scattered nice days this time of year but I don't really count on spring anymore until the calendar says april.

Rocky in MO

Anonymous-0 · Feb 18, 2009

I think the skunks always get "frisky" in mid Feb. Seems about normal to me. If you get spring in the winter you'll get winter in the spring.

Mike (WA) · Feb 18, 2009

Gonna go out on a limb here, but I don't think "snow plowing really slowing down" means spring is here, unless you're in Siberia. I think you're just between blizzards.

Ole Shovel · Feb 18, 2009

Keep dreaming winter is not over though. Here in SW winter can be considered over and no more frosts after the native hackberry trees bloom or leaf out and they aren"t even close to leafing out yet. Got a hauled in nursery hackberry tree from another area that is all wrong as it loaded up with berries indicating a rough winter ahead but the native trees did not have any berries and it"s been a very mild winter here.

case441 · Feb 18, 2009

Yes I call them tree frogs and we here them spring and most of the summer. I just love to sit on the deck sippin a bourbon and listening to them. It's been very cold here, Binghamton, NY area since mid October. Thinking about moving a little further south, posibly eastern Ky.

Kestrel in CT · Feb 18, 2009

We've had scattered flock of robins all winter round here in CT for 2 years running. Photo taken Jan 1, shows them eating my Holly berries.
Also had bluebirds around the house 2 weeks ago. Sure takes the fun out of spring's first sighting.

Paul from MI · Feb 18, 2009

Winter will last a while longer. But I did see a possum playing dead in the middle of the road south of the house Monday. He was still there playing dead today, just a little flatter
Paul

kyplowboy · Feb 19, 2009

Always heard that, never seen it till 2 years ago. We had 3 realy warm and dry weeks in March. Folks go busy planting corn, pasture started growing, wheat started growing real fast, trees bloomed. Then the second or third week of April we had 3 staight nights of record cold down into the low 20's. Ground froze, all corn that was up got replanted, alot wheat got corn planted into it or cut for hay, stunted grass only made about 1/2 what it should of first cutting. Hope I don't see a spring like that again for a while.

Dave

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