Yesterday the weather cooperated in the afternoon just long enough for me to get in a little gardening. The air wasn’t real warm, but a touch of sun here and there after the previous days of rain felt really good. The vegetable garden is too wet to turn over, but at least it’s cleaned up and ready for that task.
The sights and sounds of Spring are many, and here’s my list of new life stirring in the last couple weeks here in Central Pennsylvania.
- Canada geese and snow geese flying high, going back up North
- blue birds settling into a blue bird nest box
- tulips sprouting their greenery
- Snow drops Gaultheria sp. emerging and flowering
- lily vegetation growing again
- Great Horned Owl hooting to a mate just before dawn
- grass getting greener
- rabbits enjoying the returning sorrel in the garden
- giant blue hyssop sprouting up its first purple leaves
- catnip growing up from last year’s plants
- parsley and oregano greening up
- fennel regrowing from bulb left in ground
- return of a pair of nesting Eastern Kingbirds
- Crocus bulbs up and flowering
- songbirds singly loudly in the early morning
- False Indigo Baptista just now sprouting
The maple trees will be opening their buds any day now, maybe today. The last three days their buds have been getting bigger and more noticeable.
Spring is always welcoming on the long side of Winter. So far, we seen and heard quite a few stirrings of Spring.
How about you? What is your favorite Spring sighting?