First Robin I've seen this year, was sitting on the railing of the deck this afternoon.:):)

Nice to hear the robins are making their way over to your part of the state Robert. I've been seeing them here for the last week or so. Maybe it's all that heat from TMI...:eek:

Been pushing 70 in South Texas this past two weeks.White wings around my house are starting to call looking for some romance.There are an estimated 1,000,000 of these doves that stay all year around San Antonio.Can't attract any other birds to the feeders,these guys are so aggressive.They have all but pushed the smaller mourning doves out of South Texas.Don't need an alarm clock,they start calling at first light.
Also saw two V s of Geese heading back North last week up around the Katy prarie.
We have a short Spring down here,Summer starts in April.

Robert, Thats good to hear. That means they are on their way to CT

Around the Shawsheen Flats it's the return of the Red-Wing Blackbirds that heralds the Spring. It seems to be earlier and earlier each year that they return. Sunday morning at about daybreak I heard them - hundreds of them high in the oaks and pines around my house and there's still more than a foot of hard frozen snow everywhere but they came up on the warm winds from the South Saturday night.
Up until then for a few weeks the Canada Geese would fly over before dawn each day calling hauntingly for landing instructions from 'birds of a feather' if there be any on the yet frozen Shawsheen marshes. Of course their pleas were unanswered so onward they flew in search of open water. Soon enough though - soon enough...

Yep ,it won't be long now! Come to think it, the Mallard Drakes have been chasing for the last two weeks. Skunks and Rabbits have been out "Looking for Love" and getting smashed along the road for their efforts for the last week.Snow Geese were in the fields by the 100's this past weekend.And I was in the back yard tonight limbering up my 5.5ft, bamboo 2/3w and
9ft, 5/6w St.Croix. Springs gotta be just around the corner.:)

Robert, do you ever fish Clark's or Stony creeks in Dauphin? Most years I spend 50-70 days fishing those two streams.

Cheers
Marcus

Do y'all have a good recipe for those harbingers? I have a feeling you need a bunch to make a good meal but I'm trying to cut back on my weight anyhow. Just a few should be fine for a good lunch.

Robins were standard table fare in the wintertime down Louisiana way for many years so I'm told. Never tried them but they can't be much different than dove or duck I'd imagine.

A cold rain falling here in Michigan this morning, temp is hovering around 37. Spring is coming but it's slow this far north. Spoke with Mother last night and they've seen the first robin in Southern Illinois so it's coming along.....


Destry

pear trees and plum trees blooming here in miss..crows doing their thing building nests...garden work looking good cabbage plants looking well and onions almost ready to eat some of those green tops....rained all night here gonna put a damper on saturdays turkey hunt but i will be in the woods the lord willing..... charlie