forgeblast
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I dont go by the robins, when i see the black birds with orange wings i know spring is here for good.
I agree with Peepers but not as the first sign for me. I would say spring is well underway by the time I hear them. When I see Eastern Bluebirds roaming the birdhouses, I know spring is around the corner. The Bluebirds have been on my property in full force for the past couple weeks. The Turkey Buzzards are back and cirlcing too, which is a good sign. But what really does it for me is the Red Winged Blackbirds. They are back now, as of yesterday, and they really make it fell like spring for me.
I’m happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. Tensions disappear along old roads like this. We bump along the beat-up concrete between the cattails and stretches of meadow and then more cattails and marsh grass. Here and there is a stretch of open water and if you look closely you can see wild ducks at the edge of the cattails. And turtles.—There’s a red-winged blackbird.
I whack Chris’s knee and point to it.
"What!" he hollers.
"Blackbird!"
Never thought of Skunk as being sign of spring. Do you think they come out more and get hit by cars?