Signs of "global warming" in your backyard !?

[Catchawave]

Subtle, but noticeable in mine (SE VA):

Purple Martins are arriving earlier and leaving earlier?

Robins are hanging around all winter?

My oleander has not died back in 8 years?

Annuals won't die in their baskets, they re-sprout in the spring.

Boxwoods and hollies are dying back, I think they need hard freezes, and we haven't been in the 'teens in several winters.

Bugs I have never seen before!

Baby ducks start hatching in March, not April.

I think I'm a borderline zone 7/8 on the garden maps, some northern plants/migratory birds do try to exist here...but I think my number one suspicion that my area is ready to jump to borderline zone 8/9....Palm trees are surviving winters now!

Just wondering.....:hi: