Aha, in the former thread "Autumn and winter 2013/14"
there's an immense need to share the spring signs across European countries. Great, folks!
Now, on with the spring thing...
Just before I left my home for the last weekend, I had been on a bike tour through the valley, and amongst others I discovered something familiar:
parsley
But where in the wilderness (Bea-like): in an abandoned vine yard.
It doesn't grow there any longer now...
Spring in Europe 2014
No, about the returning cranes - not in this thread...
Spring signs are increasing so much:
First time (since I live here) that a common tit (kuusitiainen) dared to start breeding here under my roof and... in front of the busy kitchen.
No joke as with April 1!
Besides of that, as I used the multilingual birdsearch engine, I came across a "new" link beneath the result list written photos >>
According to my first, general search on "tit", this popped on: http://www.knutas.com/?species=Xenodacnis%20parina - for the suggestion of "tit like dacnis".
Confusing if you want. But "only" a passerine from abroad.
(Göran Knutas is the Svensk creator of the search machine, and now he turns out to be an attentive bird photographer)
Spring signs are increasing so much:
First time (since I live here) that a common tit (kuusitiainen) dared to start breeding here under my roof and... in front of the busy kitchen.
No joke as with April 1!
Besides of that, as I used the multilingual birdsearch engine, I came across a "new" link beneath the result list written photos >>
According to my first, general search on "tit", this popped on: http://www.knutas.com/?species=Xenodacnis%20parina - for the suggestion of "tit like dacnis".
Confusing if you want. But "only" a passerine from abroad.
(Göran Knutas is the Svensk creator of the search machine, and now he turns out to be an attentive bird photographer)
Another sign of spring now -
the peregrine falcon from the nest at river-km 548 is back. I'd observe the bird yesterday, and a longer-living inhabitant told me that the artificial nest was installed up there when kind of fortification walls were built into the fragile stone (geological expression: bedrock).
Other spring signs:
blossom of hazel has ended (puhh!),
the alder begins (arghh)
and the beautiful but "unimpressive" ash tree has put out first thick buds.
the peregrine falcon from the nest at river-km 548 is back. I'd observe the bird yesterday, and a longer-living inhabitant told me that the artificial nest was installed up there when kind of fortification walls were built into the fragile stone (geological expression: bedrock).
Other spring signs:
blossom of hazel has ended (puhh!),
the alder begins (arghh)
and the beautiful but "unimpressive" ash tree has put out first thick buds.