The gulls are back
I just stepped out and heard gulls for the first time this season.
It feels like summer out there.
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EmilyG 14:55 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
I think the local ring-billed gulls go to the ocean during the winter, and return in spring. I think they (and the turkey vultures) are more of a sign of spring than robins, some of which stay here throughout the winter.
Janet 15:11 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
When I opened my window yesterday, I was so pleased to smell the petrichor as the earth re-emerged from under the snow. I hadn’t realized it could come from melting snow too.
MarcG 15:53 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
Let’s not forget to also enjoy the lovely wafting aroma of liquefied pig shit
Kate 16:39 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
Are they already fertilizing the fields south of town?
MarcG 16:42 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
I smelled some of that gruesome funk in Verdun earlier. I pulled over to stretch my legs at a rest stop in Drummondville once and nearly tossed my cookies it was so putrid.
Ian 21:31 on 2026-03-09 Permalink
Currently in fool’s spring, waiting for second winter
Blork 11:10 on 2026-03-10 Permalink
Geese spotted overhead this morning!
MarcG 11:26 on 2026-03-10 Permalink
Heard my first red-winged blackbirds today
Kate 11:54 on 2026-03-10 Permalink
I just heard a party of high school kids laughing in the back alley. Spring is here.
bob 13:41 on 2026-03-10 Permalink
This reminds me of a time a fellow student from out west was making the same kind of “Spring is sprung” comments early one April, and I told him “It’s Montreal – wait”. And a week later we got a few cm of snow.