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Hard to have a real spring when you don’t have a winter to speak of. We have Sprimmer, warm weather grading into hot. Then four months from now comes a season called simply “Hot”, mid June through the end of October, when Falnter begins. Three seasons: Sprimmer, Hot, Falnter. Festivus is in there somewhere.

Anyhoo, the redbuds are blooming here, a sure sign Sprimmer has arrived….

I saw the first garter snake today. Unusual.

Same here and the spiders are out. Mosquitoes imminent...

I always thought Spring has arrived when the mesquite trees start blooming.

Hundreds of robins in my woods the last few days, I assume they are heading back north.

That was what we were told when we moved to Midland. Never paid attention though. No mesquite around here in Boerne.

Birdy, I was fishing this evening at Buchanan and saw something very strange.

As you know we have plenty of Canada geese here but two strange geese flew closely by which I have never seen before. I've killed all species of North American geese except for a Ross.
These two were medium sized like Brant and with shortish necks. They were dusky tan and off white under the black tipped wings. They each had wide and prominent chevrons of light blue.

Weird. It reminded me of something maybe from South America.

Do you have any ideas?

Wow... I used to live about half way between Burnet and Lake Buchanan on HWY-29. In another life...

First guess….. Egyptian goose.

They arrived here in San Antonio maybe ten years back, spreading rapidly, likely to replace the black-bellies whistling duck as our common urban goose-like bird. Unlike whistling ducks they don’t need elevated cavities to nest in and they’re bigger.

My coverage ain’t amenable to copying images this am so google up images of Egyptian goose.

Good guess have seem a few around there had some strange ducks at the fish hatchery on inks downstream this winter also.The whistling ducks population is climbing as well,some say climate change,I say lack of duck hunters these days!

Snowed here Friday...............

Nekid Jesse bushes are gettin ready to pop here

Most were cleaned out but we got them if you look around.

Here in South Central Missouri grass is starting to Green Up in the fields. We are noticing some trees starting to bud. Frost will get the Fruit Trees again this year. The next couple days are going to be nice. Then back cold for two or three days, then back nice for next weekend. This is different. Normally my days off are when we have bad weather, and it gets nice when I am working.

Bob R

Supposed to push 90 here today at 87 degrees for the forecasted high. It’s got to be close to a record.

I usually visit that area in March, The Blue Bonnets are usually just starting. Last year at the fish hatchery there were mostly Buzzards.

There were tiny blooms on a few trees here 3 weeks ago, northern Arkansas.

I'll never live where it's warn year round ever again,, ok.

Agarita’s are blooming. Bucks still got antlers. And some does are still hot. Turkeys gobbling in the morning. Rattlesnakes are moving.

Blue bonnets are coming on strong in the yard. Going to be a good year for them as we got some rain. Our peach trees started blooming about 2 weeks ago. Of course still expecting a blue norther to knock the peaches off the tree, if past years are any indication.

They just said on news, it’s going to be 95 degrees in DFW today, that’s not good for a lot of reasons, watch out for buzz bunny’s and copper heads.