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Look what I just saw in the park across the street! (Original Post)
Brigid
Mar 2014
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They've been looting the wet turf under the melting snow here for a couple of weeks.
onehandle
Mar 2014
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. They've been looting the wet turf under the melting snow here for a couple of weeks.
Hints of Spring here in Philly.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)2. Here in Oregon, Daffs and crocus are blooming
and so are the flowering trees I can see over my laptop screen. and I can sit out here on the deck in a hoodie and no gloves!
spring!! whoohoo!!!
DebJ
(7,699 posts)3. We had a whole flock of them on our lawn last week. That was wonderful!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)4. "Cheer up Cheer up, Cheer up Cheer up...Cheerily"
Been noticing them too and hearing their distinctive song.
Also nice is that it's been sunny and in the 60's two days in a row; breaking a long curse we had where every decent sunny day in the 50's had to be followed by 4 rotten ones.
a kennedy
(29,618 posts)5. hearing the male cardinal singing all morning too just makes my head spin....
It's spring, it's spring, it's spring. FINALLY.
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)6. I've been hearing them
Of course, here in Oakland, that isn't such big news.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)7. ...
CVN-68
(97 posts)8. We're starting to see these again.
Mockingbirds.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)9. Welcome to DU.
CVN-68
(97 posts)10. Thank you for the wecome and wave.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)12. Welcome to DU, CVN-68!
and welcome to the lounge.
CVN-68
(97 posts)13. Thank you for the kind welcome
and the wave.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)11. Ours are late this year.
They are usually here by now. I have seen mockingbirds and a red-winged blackbird though.