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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 about three in the afternoon I sawand heard a gaggle of geese fly overhead in South Strafford and this morning spotted a hooded merganzer in the Connecticut River near the Ledyard Bridge in Hanover.

Maria, South Strafford
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

The town street sweeper was making the rounds this morning in Bennington.

Marsha in Bennington

From Randolph. Our One Sign of Spring was the three days of full sunshine, beginning on Easter Day. Of course, then the weather gods got back at us by dumping 5-6 inches of snow on us today! However, Spring will happen!

This evening on my way back from work, the field at the junction of River Rd (117) and North Williston Rd was full of geese. There was the usual crowd of canada geese, but this time I also saw a huge group of snow geese, and I have never seen them on the ground myself before!

Kristin, Underhill
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

A Killdeer in Pomfret starting 3-28, heard on the 28th, then heard and saw it on the 29th.

the sound of open water in a small stream,
tulips poking through the snow,
new bicycle boxes arriving at the sports shop in Hanover

Robin, Hanover NH
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

A killdeer in a farmer's field in Colchester on March 25.

Alice, Colchester
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Last night, as I was driving home around 7pm, there were rainbows all over Williston. I took these photos with my cell phone camera on North Williston Road... I wish I had a better camera with me. There were lots of folks outside in there yards just enjoying the view and people (like me) who stopped and got out of their cars.

These 2 images are of the same rainbow. Unfortunately I couldn't get the whole thing in 1 picture. It was quite the sight.

Jonathan Butler
Vermont Public Radio

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Updated: 04/10/2008 10:41:40 AM

Amphibians were moving for the first time this year in Monkton and New Haven. Spotted salamanders, wood frogs, peepers, newts, and blue-spotted salamanders were all moving from their overwintering sites to the breeding pools last night in Monkton (across the Monkton Vergennes Rd) and in New Haven (across North Street).

Chris, Monkton

In the Town of Hinesburg, near the upland Town Forest, I heard the nasal tweet of a Common Woodcock.

In Grand Isle: I saw the first pseudoscorpion of the season on our bedroom ceiling!

In Monkton, the beer in the garage has gotten too warm to drink.

A peregrine falcon has his nesting site staked out in Barnet.

Enough snow is gone for the dog to find burrs and bring them in on his coat.

Roadside snowbanks are melting away to reveal the usual swath of mailbox damage. Every spring I take photos of the best ones. This one's my favorite so far. (Photo taken in Huntington)

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Updated: 04/07/2008 08:40:13 AM

Another sign of spring in the North Country.

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The little boys in the Mountain St. (Bristol) neighborhood are out playing street hockey - time to make the first batch of popsicles!

First Bluebird of the spring in Huntington, VT. Male seen Saturday 4/5 staking claim to one of the many houses on our
property.....he beat the Tree Swallows to it.

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

kildeer and kestrels appear
First great blue heron on our pond
Rhubarb sprouting by the house

John Roberts West Cornwall Addison County

Yesterday afternoon, I saw a guy walking north on Route 5 in Norwich and he wasn't wearing a shirt! He was carrying his coat and shirt, walking on the sunny side. He was either a sign of spring or a little too exuberant.

Submitted by Ben from Norwich

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