A call from an old friend

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:07:38 -0600, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Standing on the stoop a couple of minutes ago (while waiting for the oven to
heat up and the water on the stove to boil) I heard that old familiar
song........the first robin of the (impending) spring!

Wolfgang
yippee!

Almost two weeks ago, in between blizzards, a flock of robins was digging
through our fall leaf piles looking for snacks. It was pretty weird as we've
had a relatively brutal winter and I wouldn't have expected robins to make a
showing for another month at least.

otoh, last week I watched a male turkey puffed up to about five times normal
size escorting a female across a field nearby. And we've been hearing buck
deer calling through the woods for mates (mates who've been making late night
meals out of our yews and such - it has indeed been a hard winter here.

so I guess something's in the air...

/daytripper (thank goodness, i've had it with winter.)

"daytripper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:07:38 -0600, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Standing on the stoop a couple of minutes ago (while waiting for the oven
to
heat up and the water on the stove to boil) I heard that old familiar
song........the first robin of the (impending) spring!

Wolfgang
yippee!

Almost two weeks ago, in between blizzards, a flock of robins was digging
through our fall leaf piles looking for snacks. It was pretty weird as
we've
had a relatively brutal winter and I wouldn't have expected robins to make
a
showing for another month at least.

otoh, last week I watched a male turkey puffed up to about five times
normal
size escorting a female across a field nearby. And we've been hearing buck
deer calling through the woods for mates (mates who've been making late
night
meals out of our yews and such - it has indeed been a hard winter here.

so I guess something's in the air...

/daytripper (thank goodness, i've had it with winter.)

Nothing to go on but my own suspect perceptions, but.......

This is the mildest in a series of nine very mild winters in a row here.
Oddly, the robins never left last winter or the one before. This year they
did.

The raccoons, who live in the storm drains, have been visible off and on
throughout the winter (in the late evenings and the wee hours of the
morning) until a fairly heavy snowfall a couple of weeks ago. I haven't
seen them since. Doubtless, this means something.

Wolfgang
who has absolutely no idea of what it means.........but pays close attention
nevertheless.