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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.

A flock of cedar waxwings in my backyard yesterday evening, eating last fall's crop of berries on the Hawthorne tree, creating great excitement for my cat!

Male Red-winged Blackbird, calling/singing mightily from the top of a white pine at Morningside Commons in Brattleboro on 3/11 eve. Guess it worked; before long a smallish flock of dark birds were about to fly by, he called, and as a unit they swerved & landed in the top of the adjacent pine. at the same
time, lower down in the stand of pines, a male cardinal was calling.

From Maryann in Brattleboro
(posted by Jonathan Butler, VPR.net)

The smell of the Intervale compost!!!!!

Can you believe I have seen flocks of robins?!

maple steam coming from my neighbor's sugarhouse!

One morning last week, I heard two birds fighting over the woodpecker hole in the corner of our house. It's definitely a sign of spring when I regain the sense of duty to fill in any new woodpecker holes! Also, a few days ago our resident blue heron made a majestic, lofty return over our field and settled somewhere in the beaver pond. We're in Putney.

On March 12 Woodchucks were seen galloping across the snowy fields of Cobb Hill in Hartland, VT

A pair of Cardinals outside of my office window in Colchester!

Six Snow Buntings in field 1 week ago in Westmore. Cedar Waxwings in Cherry tree a week ago in Derby. 5 Pine Grosbeaks in same tree in Derby yesterday.

Belted Kingfisher perched next to a beaver meadow in Cabot

My sister called to say that spring is here because her cat ventured outdoors for the first time in four months.

Most people think of the first signs of Spring as Robins and flowers. As I have gotten older I always think that Spring is on its way when I begin to smell skunks.

I saw a Turkey Vulture soraing in Burlington.

That, and the perfume of skunk!

The Silver Maples are flowering in Burlington!

On Boardman Hill in West Rutland, a huge flock of red winged blackbirds have invaded us! And, this afternoon, some robins appeared! Perhaps there really is hope for spring!

Next to Button Bay State Park (Ferrisburgh) - the robins have been back since 2/18! And we saw the first red winged blackbird at our feeder during the ice last Sunday. Love the loud chirping that's back in the air!

Yesterday (March 15), a boy about eight years old, wearing sneakers and a windbreaker, rode his bicycle by my house, through the melting slush. Later, a man walked down the street, hatless and wearing a short-sleeve shirt. Absolutely guaranteed sign of spring!

The first snowdrop in my front yard opened its little head to the sun this morning!
My crocus greens are coming up and the first brave tulip spears are powering through the crusts of remaining snow/ice!

I forgot to mention that my signs of Spring I just posted are in Brattleboro.

I heard Red-wing blackbirds in Charlotte on Sunday (16 Mar 08)

Sorry no picture

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