Community Chat

[handygal2]

It's 61 degrees here in the suburbs of NYC. My windows are open for the first time in months, and I'm enjoying breathing in the fresh air inside my house. Tomorrow is back to reality, though, with normal temperatures returning. But l'm enjoying this while it lasts!

[maestra]

Wave robins in the backyard, along w/our cardinals and finches.

[KitTkat]

@wagirl wrote:

me too! noticed it about a week ago--and my lilacs have buds too!! I live in west WA state. Most the trees around here are budding too. this time in feb, can also hear the peeper frogs at night. 

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@wagirl

I'm in Lewis county. Everything was sensing Spring and now it's turned cold. It was 15° this morning. There is a pond in my cow field that the frogs are usually "singing" at high volumes, but now they are silent.

Btw, I feed the wild song birds all year long, so their chirping is heard in all kinds of weather out my window. I love them.

[shoekitty]

My Lesser Goldfinches, and a few goldfinches have been here all year.  A few weeks ago they were scarce.  They are back, not the flocks and flocks all day, but a steady flow.. One bird I just saw tht has been gone for a couple months is the Oak titmouse.  He is beyond cute.  That wild punk mohawk hair do.  He is so small and he will work for a long time to steal one of Bobby, the blue jays peanuts!,,  that peanut is about as big as he,

it is spring for me when the black headed grosbeak, and his wife appear.  March usually. They "Winter" in Mexico they say!

[wagirl]

kit--I live in woodinville--and I feed the birds all year too, however....had issues with a bear last spring and now have to move the feeder and hummingbird feeder someplace much higher. Yikes!!!!  We have a salmon creek running thru our back yard so lots of frogs there too as well as other critters much bigger.