signs of spring

[redcrbbr]

after the few really nice days we have all enjoyed, i'm just wondering what you folks look for as your first sign of spring?
I have a couple...daffodils sprouting, and my always dependable redwing black birds!!
The daffodils have started but no RWblackbirds yet.
other things i look for are Ospreys and crocusis.

what do you folks look for???

[goosefish]

I look for plankton blooms in the salt pond, and the grass shrimp coming into the shallows. Ospreys too. And terns---the sound of the first spring tern is a sound I never tire of hearing.

[Fishpart]

I look for the snow to disappear from my front front yard

The first sign is my neighbor's kid fly fishing for trout through a 6 foot round hole in his pond................

Chives and daffodils are up..........

[fishaholic18]

Tulips are popping up in my yard, almost Herring time.

[Goose]

Phone ringing off the hook...."when you gonna do my yard"

[Notaro]

Melting ices, gulls flying, abundent crabs cralwling, baitfish concentration, and a warm day.

[Jenn]

mud

[Rappin Mikey]

Girls in those really short shorts ..... and beer

[beachwalker]

It only shrinks to 1" when I surf as oppossed to vanishing........

[Nebe]

When the girls highschool cross country team jogs by my studio every afternoon

[bloocrab]

...crayola crabs crawling beneath some muscle beds to feed ol' rubba bubba...

[Raven]

say: hey the red winged black birds are here.....and the grackles but ya beat me to it..... the real sign of spring is hearing a robins morning song for the first time.... but some over winter , so the defining moment for me is the deafoning sound of the spring peepers.

[chris L]

crocuses popping out of the soil / snow . the song of the robin and bees flying outside . and the thought of reproduction fades by .

[rwilhelm]

When I start doing yardwork again.

[Thom]

Hey saw some Redwingblack birds out here in westernmass also saw a Turkey Vul. For me the sure sign of spring is when I here the Spring Peepeers. ThomT

[Raven]

i plant them on or close to Saint Patricks day.....every year!!
that starts my engines

[Slingah]

ladders.......

[Backbeach Jake]

Yep, peepers.

[scarecrow]

wet t-shirts contests down a the waterfront out on the deck overlooking the beautiful ct river.

[cheferson]

My work week increasing to 50+ hours from 30

[Crafty Angler]

St. Paddy's Day in Newport, where we all hoist a couple to salute our Irish brethren as they march down Thames - yup, half the town comes out to watch the other half march.

That Monday I'll be goin' for my trout license and then...

[Katie]

i guess flowers and my mom going back to work..tourists...trailors comming back in may.. all the good stuff

[Karl F]

When the herring start running... and... when bassmaster disappears from the internet for 3 weeks, no posts, no lurking.. and does not even show up at all on the "who's online"
That's the clue... unplug the daygone PC, and go fishin'!

[Jimbo]

Beautiful sunrise this morning, followed by the arrival two "red, red, robins bop, bop bopping along" in my front yard chowing down on worms or something. It's the classic sign that Spring is here. I will not be convinced otherwise.

[Duke41]

The boat calls to me at night "paint me,wax me".

[28inches]

Rangers get eliminated from the playoffs.

[The Dad Fisherman]

You find yourself saying things Like

"Sinden S$%ks"

"Its not like it used to be when Bird, McHale, and Parish were out there"

"I'm telling you this is the year, They've shored up their rotation and [insert favorite player here] was really smacking the cover off the ball in Spring Training."

[Rob C.]

Dont the Rangers usually get eliminated from the playoffs around the time that we first start ice fishing.

[cheferson]

8 inches of snow after 60 degree temps the day before!!!

[goosefish]

Out on the pond, saw the first osprey of the season.