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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.

Well, we've had the woodcocks doing their flights for about ten days (three this year); phoebes started calling on Sunday and last night the first spring peepers!

-Dave in Bennington

Whoops, I forgot to add, we finished sugaring on Sunday. About eight gallons from 12 trees, not too shabby! And we'll let the wood furnace go cold today. The garlic is up, and we'll take off the winter mulch tomorrow. If I'm feeling really brave, the snow tires will come off this week.

The laying hens are all producing an egg a day again, too. I'm going to have to take them out of the garden soon so we can plant.

--Dave in Bennington

clothespins stored out on the line; Elizabethtown NY

I shaved my legs.

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Tree Swallows & Eastern Phoebe spotted 4/9 in Hartland.

Waterbury Center:

Honey bees on the crocuses (croci?)

Pink flamingos reappear!

Today I played The Stick Game (throwing the stick) with my neighbor's yellow Lab. This is a sure sign of the demise of winter. Although there's still at least 3 feet of snow on my irises, the daffodils are up and growing like weeds.

Elizabeth, Brookfield
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

Ducks swimming in the neighbors pond

Dog toys discovered in the yard beneath the disappearing snowpack

John in Saxtons River
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

The Brandon Mailman wearing shorts. April 10, 2009

Mary in Brandon
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

A male bluebird scout perched on a bluebird house on April 9th.

Bobbie in Sheffield
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

solar hot water heater at 130 degrees - that is after a load of laundry!

Bluebirds checking out nest boxes in Huntington.

On Saturday our ranch home became waterfront when the White River connected. The cornfield is flooded. the swing gives you the false sense of waterfront. Woodfrogs came alive. Merganzers landed, and Canada Geese are back. Wooly Bear caterpillar, and a spotted salamander peeked out from some leaves.

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Pittsford signs of spring are:
Using the heat during the morning comute and opening the window for the ride home.
Peepers in Sugar Hollow are awake.

My sweet dog is allergic to grass. I know it's spring (and the grass is sprouting) -- he spends lots of time carefully licking his feet after playtime in the yard. SLURP!

Here in Montpelier, I know it's spring when there are kids are playing Ultimate Frisbee, barefoot, on the Statehouse lawn.

I have all the windows open in the house.

It. Is. Wonderful.

Very Early Spring in Vermont

Today was a warmish sunny day. The ground looks like it is loosening her white chastity belt and showing her unshaven legs-the hairs are matted and colorless.
When I opened my window this morning the smell of warm dirt came through on the edge of a breeze still crisp with snow.
We go out to check on the geese and to surveille our vast acre. Distinctive scents of ice cold water, decaying dog poop and rotting leaves make my nose smile.

Picnic tables reappear on Vermont Law School campus in South Royalton.

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