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You're lucky and I envy you. All I've managed this year is to unearth a flat
black plastic disk with a hole in its middle. I was wondering if this is a record?!! Best Wishes flayb to reply. "Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... I heard my first cuckoo of the season today (and first swallow spotted yesterday) Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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That would be reason enough (aside from Maine being so disagreeable most
Aprils) to make a visit to the parts of Britain where this sound may be heard. We can become quite starved for spring sounds at this moment of the year. Still, with ice now out, we have the loons back on our lakes, and the "peepers" every evening in the wet areas recently thawed (tree frogs) the red-wing blackbirds (back by March 26) and some of the boreal warblers are returned to the spruce forest. I understand the best is yet to come, next two months, for both Maine and large areas of the UK. Unlike most of the US, ours is a very delayed spring in this corner, much like adjacent Canada. -- __________________________________ Personal site with eastern Maine and Yellowstone 2000 photos; new Lamoine web cam: http://www.lamoine.dns2go.com/ Albums of Winter 2004 ice, winter work, and Yellowstone 2002: http://community.webshots.com/user/plantplanman "Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... I heard my first cuckoo of the season today (and first swallow spotted yesterday) Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:47:00 -0400, "Scott L Hadley"
wrote: That would be reason enough (aside from Maine being so disagreeable most Aprils) to make a visit to the parts of Britain where this sound may be heard. We can become quite starved for spring sounds at this moment of the year. Still, with ice now out, we have the loons back on our lakes, and the "peepers" every evening in the wet areas recently thawed (tree frogs) the red-wing blackbirds (back by March 26) and some of the boreal warblers are returned to the spruce forest. I understand the best is yet to come, next two months, for both Maine and large areas of the UK. Unlike most of the US, ours is a very delayed spring in this corner, much like adjacent Canada. My wife saw a stork standing in a field yesterday and the sparrows are back. |
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:47:00 -0400, "Scott L Hadley" said:
] That would be reason enough (aside from Maine being so disagreeable most ] Aprils) to make a visit to the parts of Britain where this sound may be ] heard. We can become quite starved for spring sounds at this moment of the ] year. Still, with ice now out, we have the loons back on our lakes, and the ] "peepers" every evening in the wet areas recently thawed (tree frogs) the ] red-wing blackbirds (back by March 26) and some of the boreal warblers are ] returned to the spruce forest. I understand the best is yet to come, next ] two months, for both Maine and large areas of the UK. Unlike most of the US, ] ours is a very delayed spring in this corner, much like adjacent Canada. [] Hi Scott, Are you in Lamoine? Quite chilly still, I expect. My sister gardens in Gouldsborough, and as it happens I just sold my old house in Hancock. Can't say I miss those downeast winters, though we had a nice visit in July last year: gorgeous hot days with cool nights, perfect Maine. Took the kids swimming in Tunk Lake, had the lake to ourselves. Then got back to France just in time for the heatwave... We've had the cuckoos sounding for a month or more here in Normandy. Spring is quite advanced, the orchards are in flower, late daffs and tulips going. Most trees are well out. But it is very dry, even with 20 mm of rain last week. -E -- Emery Davis You can reply to by removing the well known companies |
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"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message
... I heard my first cuckoo of the season today (and first swallow spotted yesterday) Janet (Isle of Arran) Yea I saw my first swallow only last week and im based in Oxfordshire, shows they dont' take long to make it all the way up there. Duncan |
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A pair Sat 24th between Beverley and Driffield whilst I was out cycling.
Also a Buzzard the same afternoon. Only the third I've seen here in 5 years Trevor East Yorkshire "Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... I heard my first cuckoo of the season today (and first swallow spotted yesterday) Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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from "Scott L Hadley" contains these words: That would be reason enough (aside from Maine being so disagreeable most Aprils) to make a visit to the parts of Britain where this sound may be heard. Nice to see you again Scott. Other spring sounds here are the curlews on the field beside the house; the crooning noise of the eider ducks, skylarks on the hill above, and lawnmowers. Janet |
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The winters are not the problem! At least for me. I love a boreal/Canadian
winter. But, as so often happens here, winter can break off nice and early, and not necessarily leave us with spring. The between-times mean mud season, maritime air, and an almost total absence of spring as most people know it. April is seldom good here, (again, not complaining about late snows) it is the seemingly endless G-weather (grim gray, grot, and many other g-words) The hard freeze this weekend past was not too welcome, but the brief snow squalls were of little bother to me. At least we got sun between squalls! Whatever it takes. Lamoine it is. We have mostly finished with snowdrops, and the early crocus. Now early forms of Narcissus. No tulips yet. I see swollen buds on lilacs and even the Philadelphus, and the not terribly numerous oaks here. Most of the native maples are trying to bloom. The non-native Norway maple, as we call it (Acer platanoides) doesn't bloom till nearer leaf time. I do see stirrings of wooly croziers of interrupted ferns (Osmunda claytoniana) and it does seem a little early for them, for whatever reason. I'd have thought it cool enough to hold them back a little. Even in a nice year we don't expect tree leaves until well into May. Hastening to finish this winter's renewal pruning on apple trees, shrubs. Really getting late for that sort of thing now. The moment we get some strong sun, it will definitely be too late. -- __________________________________ Personal site with eastern Maine and Yellowstone 2000 photos; new Lamoine web cam: http://www.lamoine.dns2go.com/ Albums of Winter 2004 ice, winter work, and Yellowstone 2002: http://community.webshots.com/user/plantplanman |
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Nice to see you again Scott. Other spring sounds here are the curlews on the field beside the house; the crooning noise of the eider ducks, skylarks on the hill above, and lawnmowers. Janet I'd almost settle for the sound of lawn mowers at this point. That starts early May. Skylarks are new to me. |
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Who are you trying to fool?
This newsgroup is full of cuckoos. Just look in the mirror, broccoli! Are you saying when you do a cuckoo, you like to swallow? "Janet Baraclough.." wrote in message ... I heard my first cuckoo of the season today (and first swallow spotted yesterday) Janet (Isle of Arran) |
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