is it a good sign

[Its Me]

Saw a blackbird collecting nesting material this morning and thought it was a bit it early in the year.Could this be a sign of mild weather coming in time for the new season.

                   andy

[Wildfisher]

we can hope, but there is probably some way to go yet! 

[Fishtales]

I see that quite a lot at this time around the garden. It doesn't mean they are about to lay eggs though. They usually build two or three nests and then pick the one they are going to use when the time comes. It is a sort of pre nuptial activity, like avian foreplay

[hopper]

I'm sure spring is on its way, i hear the woodpeckers starting to rattle on the telegraph poles, the robin was singing his little heart out the this morning and two dippers on the river were chasing fighting and whistling at each other but i am sure winter will have sting in it's tale before we see the geese going north and house martins arriving here usually about the 17th of April

[Fishtales]

Saw a skein of geese heading north yesterday, probably the same ones I heard heading south last week

[hopper]

Usually a huge number of geese  on Montrose basin but this winter they must have moved south as we are only hearing the odd skein heading back to the basin at night after feeding in the fields

[Buanán]

There's a bit of heat in the mid afternoon sun now, if your lucky enough to get some. The back of it is broken it's all headed in the right direction 1 or 2 mins per day, I'm just hoping for better weather than last year............... 

[Fishtales]

Snowdrops are up and flowering, Crocus too and the Polyanthus. Daffodils are up and showing the flower stems in anongst the leaves. Still a way to go yet but we are getting there

[Wildfisher]

On the banks of the Lunan water there are flowering snowdrops everywhere. It is a cheery sign. 

I am also noticing the climate at 40M above sea level on the south sid4e of the Grampian chain  is rather more congenial than that at 250M on the north side.    :

[garryh]

i don't like to see an early spring . in my experience it encourages fish to be active and feeding when they should still be lying comatose.the first weeks of the season are usually great  but then it can be dour for the rest of the year.rivers may be different but that is my experience on lochs.

Garry