And looking and listening out for the first swallow, the first cuckoo and the first orange tip butterfly.
Have you spotted any firsts?
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And looking and listening out for the first swallow, the first cuckoo and the first orange tip butterfly. Have you spotted any firsts?
24 Comments
Julia
17/4/2016 05:39:23 pm
i saw my first swallowtail butterfly yesterday...robins building nests, and the peepers are singing every morning and evening. Primroses were bitten by last week's snow..:-(
Freda
18/4/2016 07:02:47 am
What is a peeper?
julia
18/4/2016 09:52:11 am
everything you ever wanted to know about peepers...:-)
cathy
17/4/2016 05:54:18 pm
I saw my first towhee...chickadees building a nest in the bird box (yay!)
Julia
18/4/2016 03:53:57 am
You are right Cathy! i've been hearing that towhee, but have not seen him...:-)
Freda
18/4/2016 07:03:27 am
I am clearly going to have to look some things up!
julia
18/4/2016 09:51:24 am
here is a short youtube video of the towhee...and all the other marvelous spring birds in eastern canada and usa
Lynne
17/4/2016 10:50:07 pm
Hi Freda, heard and then saw my first swallow in York yesterday. I don't expect to hear a cuckoo this year but will enjoy my memory of the cuckoos in the Outer Hebrides.
Freda
18/4/2016 07:04:52 am
What about martins on the riverbank? Nothing here yet...
Freda
18/4/2016 07:05:47 am
It is wonderful when you see them back again.
Lucille
18/4/2016 01:46:25 am
I saw the bats flying at dusk yesterday just as the Robin hopped into cover from the bird feeder. The tadpoles are doing well in their new home. I had to move the spawn from a drying puddle!
Freda
18/4/2016 07:06:35 am
:-) You are really kind to tadpoles
cath
18/4/2016 07:54:48 am
A week and a half ago I saw my first butterfly of the season: a Small White, which we call 'Koolwitje' (Small Cabbage White).
Freda
18/4/2016 12:50:10 pm
Thank to Julia for the links! Excellent! And thanks for the laugh about the martin Cath. I'm going to have to look some things up too! The bees are back - one lot nesting in the wall of the house and another lot (very big and furry) going in and out of a hole in the workshop wall. Tiny new hazel leaves unfurling over the weekend, and I saw a Small Tortoiseshell on the hill. And someone is making a lot of noise above my bedroom window - I hope it's a sparrow nesting and not mice!
Freda
18/4/2016 12:51:31 pm
Are you OK with the bees nesting in your house walls?!
Lotta
18/4/2016 01:28:46 pm
Yes, they've been doing it for the last few years! From what I've read they don't do any damage to the house and I haven't been stung by them yet... Wasps would be a different matter! 18/4/2016 12:03:27 pm
I have lots of your post to catch with! We saw our first swallow last weekend and have our first cowslip coming out in the garden. Sarah x
Freda
18/4/2016 12:52:31 pm
I have a cowslip coming but no swallows yet although one has been seen in a nearby village.
Mary
18/4/2016 02:28:12 pm
This morning I couldn't think of any firsts, but when I came home from work tonight, my husband said a hummingbird was at our kitchen window looking for our feeders. The birds come from South America (we live by the Chesapeake Bay) every year. We've have kept multiple hummigbird feeders (sugar water) on our deck for years--spring to late fall--and the hummies return each year. We even recognize some of them. If you don't know much about them, I encourage you to read about them. Their journey from South America is an amazing feat of nature.
PennyL
19/4/2016 12:02:56 am
My first was a greater spotted woodpecker visiting our nuts on Saturday! We'd moved them further around our beech tree , so maybe being a few feet further from the house did the trick!the beech tree also has its first leaves out, just on one of its smaller branches, the rest are in tight bud. It's a beautiful tree to watch every spring. The leaves unfurl as the day goes on, a bit like time-lapse photography in real time.
Freda
19/4/2016 11:54:27 am
I've not seen one yet this year, but have heard one. I once had a beech branch in a vase which opened up its opposite lime green leaves in the warmth of the house - they looked like butterflies. I've never managed to get the effect again. Your tree sounds wonderful Penny. Leave a Reply. |
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