[tizaala]

Our wild geese returned this morning , noisy sods woke me up , cant they fly quietly?

[MAK]

Yep the cranes have been flying north but not the mass formations yet. I have just seen a large flock of other large birds ( black and white ones !!!) heading in the same direction. I really must get the "bird book" out and try and identify these birds.
Tizaala -do you eat the geese ?

[tizaala]

No Mak, they return to our small lake every year and raise a brood , only ever see two pair , then they have a noisy fly by every evening until it's time to leave again in late Autumn. Nice to see them about.

[happygolucky]

They must be all chatting away as they fly, always a wonderful sight!!

[Dogwalker]

Our wild geese returned this morning , noisy sods woke me up , cant they fly quietly?

And there was me thinking you were going to be cheerful about something.

[NormandyMary]

After a misty start, its a gorgeous day here in NW France, its 15degrees outside and the sun is shining. It seems almost impossible to believe that we are going to have snow again on Monday and Tuesday! My rhubarb is on the way up, and I have buds on my raspberries, red and blackcurrants Im quite relieved as I was sure the goats had destroyed them last year. Hopefully within a couple of weeks, out back garden will be properly fenced off to stop the little blighters from eating all my crops. I would love to go out and weed and get rid if the dead stuff etc but my knee wont allow me to. Ive got another appointment with the doc on Monday, and Ill ask for an Xray as I can feel things crunching and moving around when I get up from a chair and try to walk. Lovely!!!!

[sabrina]

Bitter wind and sleet yesterday. Still very cold today and snow forcast.

[renee]

! My rhubarb is on the way up,

Rhubarb! Mine is under 3 feet of snow and will be for another month or two. But at least it is Spring winter now and the sun is returning. Just now it is -20 but it  nearly gets up to freezing point during the day. Tomorrow is the annual outing on snow scooters up to the summer pastures to eat pea soup made over a bonfire. They have strange ideas of fun up here

[Lesley Silvester]

My rhubarb is up as well and there are buds on one of the plum trees and on the jostaberry.   

[tizaala]

Intrigued Renee, can you write you name in the snow with pea soup ? 

[renee]

 
I will ask the.
But at the moment the snow has a very hard,shiny surface. When is freezes so hard at night, then the sun melts the surface. Now there is great activity in the forests as it is much easier to come in and get the trees down. I was amazed to learn that to harvest trees on islands in the big lake, they pour more and more water onto the ice roads, to carry the huge machines across

[scarlettoara]

Our wild geese returned this morning , noisy sods woke me up , cant they fly quietly?

our wild geese come for the winter (and the shooting season) and then leave in the spring. what breed are yours? we are in scotland.

[tizaala]

Ours are Canadas , or possibly Greylags, can never get close enough to see , is there a grey and noisy variety? 

[rispainfarm]

Spring may have been coming, but I think it has got lost somewhere, its sat nav must be on the blink. Becuase its winter here again.

[Mrs Snoodles]

Spring may have been coming, but I think it has got lost somewhere, its sat nav must be on the blink. Becuase its winter here again.

Here too     Mega blizzard outside.   Fair amount of snow on the ground but fingers crossed it is just a 24hr thing.    I am so looking forward to Spring.  Please come, please please please