SPRING IS HERE!!!!!

  • northstar42
    west central Minnesotsa
    Posts: 921
    March 31, 2010 at 12:59 pm #1266926

    It’s official! Spring is here. The frogs started peeping in the pond behind the house yesterday evening. The first sturgeon fishing expedition is only 15 days away.

    smackem
    Iowa Marshall Co
    Posts: 956
    March 31, 2010 at 1:30 pm #859234

    I was thinking the same thing this morning as I drove along the river bottom and heard them all.

    Sharon
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    SE Metro
    Posts: 5475
    March 31, 2010 at 1:41 pm #859238

    I heard some Red Wing Black Birds the other day near a pond by my house! It was lovely.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    March 31, 2010 at 1:47 pm #859239

    Ah, the spring peepers. It always seems odd when they start calling. Many years there is still snow around when it happens.

    The redwing blackbirds arrived not too long ago too. But for me, the most unusual sign of spring happened about 3 weeks ago while walking the dogs. I actually saw a butterfly. Not some little dinky thing or a moth, but a mourning cloak.

    Not sure what he thought he was going to be able to eat.

    Also, the goldfinches have paired up and the wintering flock in our yard dispersed. The best part about spring right now is just as the sun starts coming up, the birds start singing loud and the symphony doesn’t have a pause.

    perch_44
    One step ahead of the Warden.
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    March 31, 2010 at 2:54 pm #859264

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    The best part about spring right now is just as the sun starts coming up, the birds start singing loud and the symphony doesn’t have a pause.

    yep! i slept with the bedroom windows open for the first time last night, and i woke up to the birds this morning. it is here…

    Czech
    Cottage Grove, MN
    Posts: 1574
    March 31, 2010 at 3:01 pm #859267

    Yeah, and by August I’ll be dreaming about the 12 ga for the robins at 4AM.

    roosterrouster
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    The "IGH"...
    Posts: 2092
    March 31, 2010 at 3:01 pm #859268

    The first woodies showed up on the pond below my house last night. I just happen to be sitting on the patio enjoying an ice cold Hamm’s when the pair dropped from the sky. Way cool…RR

    perch_44
    One step ahead of the Warden.
    Posts: 1589
    March 31, 2010 at 5:17 pm #859316

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    ice cold Hamm’s

    you’re alright in my book! bierstube in hastings has Hamm’s tall taps – $2.00 every day, all day…

    walleyehunter83
    Posts: 56
    March 31, 2010 at 6:03 pm #859341

    Got the first sunburn of the year on the face and hands Sunday while fishing the Mississippi. What a great feeling to be in the boat again.

    shadrap23
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 178
    March 31, 2010 at 7:58 pm #859379

    I did the same this AM…stood on the deck and listened to all the frogs and birds enjoying my morning coffee…

    Sharon
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    SE Metro
    Posts: 5475
    April 1, 2010 at 1:14 am #859469

    Awesome butterfly picture!

    medic242
    Sioux Falls, SD
    Posts: 71
    April 1, 2010 at 11:49 pm #859887

    It felt like summer in the Quad Cities today it was 82 and sunny all day

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