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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.

Yesterday (Easter), I saw 3 Red-Winged Blackbirds and a flock of Robins foraging for worms in Bennington. Also, the Maple sap has been running down here for a few weeks, now. The earth has begun to be pliable, and we have snowdrops, daffofils and other bulb plants poking through.

Maurice, Bennington
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Last weekend we saw a grouse drumming on a ledge outcrop in our yard in Huntington. We assume it was the same fellow that drummed at least once a week in this same spot all last summer - he got an early start this year!

Lisa, Huntington
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

The Woodcock is back - doing his thing in Springfield!

I was comparing 'sign's of spring' w/ my fiance this past weekend. I mentioned I had seen a robin, a pheasant and a flock of geese here in Bridport...and he told me he said that was nothing! He saw the first ads on TV for Round-UP! Can you believe it? ...are there really weeds under all that ice? happy weeding! haha!!

"Peent"! The woodcocks have returned. Two began their arial displays above my pasture (despite a thick blanket of snow) on Sunday evening March 23rd shortly after dusk.

I went out to my garden Easter Sunday afternoon and in spite of over a foot of packed snow in which I did not sink, I walked over to my bee hives and found one had bees flying out in the front doing their, shall we say, "spring cleaning." Although the other two hives did not survive I was most pleased that this one did. That foot plus of snow needs to disappear soon as I have two packages of bees arriving from Georgia in less than a month! No flowers yet, but bees. Newfane Hill, Newfane, Vermong

We bought the last remaining packet of spinach seeds at a nearby supermarket [spinach is an early-season crop].
--Ed in West Pawlet

A gaggle of Canada Geese on the White River near Bethel, Vermont on Tuesday, 3/25.

Gerry Botha, Barnard, VT.

Canada geese heading north over Warren

Our Town Clerk sitting on the steps of the Town Hall getting some sun at 3:30 today.

Susan, Chester VT
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Only one packet of spinach seeds left in the seed rack at the grocery store.

I live in West Pawlet. The store is the Price Chopper in Granville.

Eulalia, West Pawlet
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

A woodchuck scrambling on the snowbanks along New Boston Road in
Norwich.

Ceci, Norwich
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

I saw 4 Canadian Geese fly overhead when snowshoeing around 8am this morning in Johnson, Vermont!

We got mouthfuls of sand walking down Main Street in Randolph in strong winds yesterday.

not pretty and not looking up, but looking down at the floors I spy ANTS!

I saw a racoon on the side of the road Wednesday night March 26 in Jay, VT.

Dandelions blooming in the barking lot. Barre, VT

Motorcycles riding the roads. Barre, VT

Red hawk hunting songbirds in the paking lot. Barre, VT

A great blue heron flew over the Tamarack Brook yesterday, march 26. A flock of about a dozen Canada geese flew overhead, march 26.

Tom, Wolcott
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Red wing blackbirds in Montpelier
Robins in Waterbury

Hilary, Middlesex
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Hello there, I wanted to let you folks know that I heard Redwinged Black Birds in Westford VT yesterday. I was at a cabin at the edge of a field where some old apple trees were growing and there was a brook wandering past.
The birds must be familiar with the good territory there!

Thea, Morrisville
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

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