It's official, spring has arrived early in the 'peg this year! It's St. Paddy's day and the snow has melted to the point of almost being totally gone...all that's left here are a few big piles in the front yard from winter clearance. The back yard's totally bare and bereft of life...and I love it!
We've seen the signs coming for a week now but the one sure sign I was waiting for were the geese and they are BACK! I'd seen a couple of random ones here and there for the last 4 days, but this morning I saw them back in FLOCKS! So they are here and they are ready for the glorious days of summer.
As enthusiastic as I sound I'm very well aware of the fact that this weather's unreal and that there's a distinct possibility that we'll get another dumping of snow before it's all said and done. As I said to a friend of mine from the south when she asked when we're done with snow...by June I feel like there's definitely not going to be any more snow.
Some years it's ended early other years we've had blizzards in May. All I can say is that if this really is the end of the snow and winter it will have been the mildest winter in a long time. And the shortest drought of birds in a long time.
Migration has started!!
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