Geese Headed North & Daffodills Poppin

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A couple of weeks ago I heard one of the most welcome sounds that I have heard through this long dreary winter. A flock of geese HIGH......HIGH>>>>> honkin to each other and headed north with the southerly winds of a front coming through.......I didn't write then as sometimes folks say its just a bunch headed to another pond.
Yesterday........at different times 3 huge Vs headed north. Each had perhaps 30 to 50 birds. I watched one flock from up on top of the mountain and was able to follow them till they were perhaps 20 miles away. Definately headed north.

Usually we get our daffodils, we have hundreds, blooming around valentine's day or before. Today, February 19, I noticed one little group popping up out of the ground with the blooms maybe a week or more away. LATE LATE LATE for sure.........

Anyway, these 2 things, I don't care about the groundhog, indicate to me that YAHOOOOO. The gray dull days are done. The COLD and wet is NO MORE. The snow is gonna melt and stay that way.......IT's FINALLY OVER.........THANKS GOD.........Dennis
 
Very cool that it's over for you.

Well, your northern partners still have Feb, March and 1/2 of April to deal with.

It was a balmy 40+ degree day today. First since last November. Ice is now everywhere and threatening to take down the gutters on the house. Back into the teens in a couple days.

Still too damn cold for those geese to get close. There's no open water.

The dog did have fun today chasing a blue heron. Can't get close but the dog loves to try.
 
Dennis and Zoom sounds like temperatures are starting to cooperate for you, I'm happy about that. Normally I should be seeing some relief by now but it just isn't happening, my animals are fed up with it and so am I.
 
Got 77 F degrees today.

Grass is spurting out in patches. For how long. Don't know.
But we did Purple Martins showing up Sunday, the 16th......

We have Martin houses around our place. We enjoy watching them >>>>
The come back here and nest every year.


.......... two guns
 

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Bad thing about this "tricky" weather. Warm weather shows up and fruit trees start trying to bloom. Plants and others start budding out. And then, BAM ...
another cold snap, and that ruins things ...

....... two guns :starbucks:
 
D&D Farm said:
Anyway, these 2 things, I don't care about the groundhog, indicate to me that YAHOOOOO. The gray dull days are done. The COLD and wet is NO MORE. The snow is gonna melt and stay that way.......IT's FINALLY OVER.........THANKS GOD.........Dennis
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So now comes the springtime ritual of wild weather warnings - they are already warning us of possible severe weather tonight, with a possible isolated tornado. Well, I guess maybe it beats mud season (unless one is actually in the path of a tornado!).

Fred
 
I meant starting this thing to point out the silver lining of the dark clouds of winter. They are almost over for sure, even though right now MANY of us are dreading even opening the door to the cold and mess of all that snow.
For me, I would rather have the snow than the scary times of tornado and storm season. I am still cutting up trees that are down from storms 2 or 3 years ago. This day just last year a storm came through maybe 10 miles south, killed a very few but tore up MANY MANY homes and businesses........So yes, I dread those balmy afternoons like today, 72 degrees at 4 pm and then long about 1 am the trees start bending over double from the straight line winds...........but still.....God is good........God bless......Dennis
 
Two: have the Purple Martins returned to Concordia Parish yet? I got my Martin houses (ABS gourds) all cleaned out a coupla weeks ago and ran the housing rigs back up the poles. I'm ready when the Martins are, but they haven't dropped in yet. Weather permitting, we have breakfast and most of the mornings on the back porch; we keep waiting to hear those familiar chirping sounds, but so far ... all the other birds, but no Martins. Any day now up here in The Cradle of Western Civilization: Lafayette County, Miss.
 
lol......the only snowbirds I see here are when I venture east a few miles, hop onto I-75 north or south and watch the license tags..........Total migration going on. Get's really to be somethin during the spring break or Daytona times..........

All I have to do to be in vacation resort land is open my eyes and walk out my door.........God is good..........Dennis
 
Good one Dennis, there certainly seems to a lot of them. I wonder if the younger generation will follow suite, some how I doubt it.
 
We actually got above freezing for 3 days this week. Next week daytime highs in the low teens and overnight lows below zero. We just got our January thaw in mid February.
 
An abundance of Snowy Owls this year in this area and not as many turkeys as last year...All the snowbirds have headed south to Florida...:harley:
 
We have a lot of Snowy Owls as well this year, many have had to be rescued, last week a fisherman had one land on his boat 300 Kms from shore, it was cold and fatigued, he brought it to the vet when he got back to shore, seems like it is doing fine now. They aren't a normal visitor here.
 
BaiJiu said:
We have a lot of Snowy Owls as well this year, many have had to be rescued, last week a fisherman had one land on his boat 300 Kms from shore, it was cold and fatigued, he brought it to the vet when he got back to shore, seems like it is doing fine now. They aren't a normal visitor here.
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Now that is a good fellow. It is nice to hear of kind things being done . :tiphat: collie
 
bordercollie said:
Now that is a good fellow. It is nice to hear of kind things being done . :tiphat: collie
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That was one lucky owl.....finding a landing spot 300km out at sea....wow!

Had a wild turkey freeze to death in a spruce tree in our back yard about a month ago. It took 2 days for the poor thing too topple to the ground...frozen solid to the branch it was clinging to.
 
After a day of flying around, the Navy hangs its planes out to dry.

That bird is a TF9 from VT 25, a Naval Aviation training squadron. The ship is USS LEXINGTON, in May 1966. Landing mishap. Note that instructor and student stayed with their bird ... ejection seats have not been fired.
 
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