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Tell us your Signs of Spring!

Crocuses peeking out of the ground? Chubby robins waddling around the yard? An inexplicable urge to eat creemees? What are the harbingers of spring for you? Each year, the Eye on the Sky meteorologists share your signs of spring during their daily broadcasts. Tell us about the signs of spring you're seeing in your neck of the woods online here, and read submissions from your fellow listeners.

To post your Sign of Spring, click "Post Your Reply" below. If you have a photo, click "Attach File" to attach that to your reply!

Please indicate the Town in which you spotted your Sign of Spring so we can track them geographically.

If you'd prefer, Click Here to email your Sign of Spring to us and we will post it online with your First Name and Town.

The surest sign that spring is near - the roads begin to heave and buckle in unusual ways. My cousin, a life-long Vermont farmer, taught me to look for the sugar snow, big white, fluffy flakes that float down gently. His dad, also a lifelong VT farmer called it "Poor Farmers' Fertilizer." He also taught me to look for the snow pulling away from the base of the trees. This is the surest sign of all. The sap is starting to flow and it's time to put out the buckets for sugaring.

Allison, Cabot
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Updated: 03/17/2008 08:56:45 AM

Just wanted you to share my excitement at seeing 18 red wing blackbirds Sunday morning at my feeders. Yes sir, 18 of em.

Paul, South Woodstock
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Updated: 03/21/2008 12:01:50 PM

Mike
Pomfret
Cows calving while I'm trying to boil syrup!
Flock of redwing blackbirds around for a week now.
Woodchuck out on the hill...on top of the crust!

picking mud out of Piper's (my horse) hooves and watching her winter coat fall out when I brush her!!

A persistent hole in the snow cover has developed over the septic tank in the backyard. Spring is on the way!

Joe, Thornton NH
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Red-winged Blackbirds have arrived in Derby as of today!

Last Thursday (3/13) morning we had a "herd" of 50+ turkeys in the woods behind our house in Montpelier! There was one bearded Tom puffed up in all his glory and gobbling away to his harem!

We have 'snowdrops', also known as- Galanthus nivalis blooming at our house in downtown Bradford.

woodcocks calling before dawn in Bennington

Saturday, six weeks after Groundhog Day, I spotted groundhog nosing around on the hill next to the Circ in the town of Essex. He didn't seem to mind the fresh snow on the ground.

My front yard is transformed into a lake. Hip waders required.

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I found a soggy worm on the driveway this morning, March 20, but could not find it later in the day due to the snow on this first day of spring.

Marsha in Bennington

The horse is shedding like crazy even with this mornings 10 degree temp and the spring vet check is next week!
Sugar Hill, NH

From Newbury, Vt. This morning I again saw a woodchuck come out from under my porch; I had seen it about 10 days ago as well. I also saw two Canadian Geese fly over the house two days ago. Peter

I saw a pair of peregrine falcons flying over Snipe Ireland Brook in Richmond on Monday morning (3/17/08). We hope they're nesting in the cliffs West of the road.

Jared, Richmond
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

A snowshoe hare (or varying hare) showing large patches of brown fur jumped across the driveway at my house in Franconia, NH yesterday, 3-20-08.

Amy, Franconia NH
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Horse shoe imprints on the soft dirt road, Windsor, Vt

A wooley bear on my dirt road in Westmister a week ago-where it came from in all that snow I can't imagine. I put it on a stone wall

The maple trees are dripping sap on the pavement; there is a dead skunk in the middle of the road; and a wake of vultures are hovering over head.

Bellows Falls

Just heard the first flock of geese overhead!

I live on the flyway--in Ferrisburgh, near the lake.

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