[MiriMaran]

So far I have seen a honey bee , bumble bee , birds getting frisky , frogs spawn , butterfly and I've had my first sting of the season - one red lumpy arm

[BadgerFace]

My 9 year old ex-batt laid an egg today !  That has to be a sign of spring !!! She is the only old lady that remains from a batch of 20. We do have other hens though, so don't worry she's not 'home alone' 

[MiriMaran]

Wow I'm going to start a new thread in the chicken section now.

[sagehen]

I walked through a cloud of thunderflies today, does that count? Also, I was raking the leaves and found about three ladybirds - should they still be hibernating? It's warm enough, I would've thought, for them to fly about?

[MiriMaran]

I've been seeing hundreds of ladybirds for the last 3 weeks.  Every bush is literally humming with them although they are still a bit drowsy.

[sagehen]

Well, that's reassuring, I suppose the ones here might just be drowsy still. Lots of ladybirds means no greenflies, which is always good news!

[MiriMaran]

I know that's what I was thinking.  Its good news isn't it?

[garden cottage]

wonder why the lawns growing like mad yet the grass in the paddocks are hardly moving.........its torture

[northfifeduckling]

toads and frogs!!! 

[doganjo]

Birds singing in the trees after a nice day - well into the evening, even when almost dark.

[bazzais]

Woodpeckers are waking us again in the morning

Ta

Baz

[Jackie]

 My frogs have just appeared yesterday and we have loads of them as normal and I wake up at 4.30 to the sounds of birds singing which is wonderful. 

[Hellybee]

and we did see some rather amorous frogs a few days ago, and i saved a bumblebee from the water trough last night, she climbed on to a little stick and i put her safe in one of the stonewalls to dry off 

[Wizard]

Helly were they jumpin in the pond? Lots of honey bees about in Scartho crawling into the Crocus cups very busy they are 

[Hellybee]

No the frogs were up to no good in a watertrough