Saw my first robin of the year today.

[multigraincracker]

Nice day for a walk. It got up to 50.

[Vinca]

1. All I got was wild turkeys walking through a foot of snow. :(

[electric_blue68]

10. Oh, dear! Got a funny story about them...

I don't know how much you know about NYC, in this case Manhattan.

The northernmost westside of Manhattan island is mostly covered in Parkland going down to th le Hudson River! (And very pretty!) It's only interrupted by a north/south highway.

We (lived in the area for about 30 yr) don't think that much about "wildlife" in the sense that....Oh, we got pigeons, squirrels, a whole bunch of different birds, which is cool (I've seen hovering hawks, and there's egrets in the northernmost park by the water). Oh, yeah, raccoons, too.
One time a deer came down from the 'burbs north of us; it made the papers! 😄

Anyway, maaaybe about 4 years ago I read that there are wild turkeys in the area below the ?highway.

I text my sis; "There're wild turkeys in Ft Tryon Park!" (the one south of the northernmost park).

My sis: OMG!

Me to myself at her reaction:

Thought it was hysterical!

And some years back they reintroduced bald eagles to that area, and some flew over when they were old enough to establish themselves in near by (across the river) into NJ. When they started that project there were something like only 2 bald eagles keft in the entire State of NY!

[badhair77]

2. Thanks for the glimmer of hope.

In less than a month we change our clocks, another step toward spring and better days.

[Bmoboy]

3. Heard robins and lots more

Used an app to identify bird songs.

Robins, Blue Jay's, Pileated and Red Breasted Woodpeckers, Red Tail Hawk, and a Murder of Crows (seven).

It was a cloudy day in the forties hear north of DC.

[yaesu]

4. I remember my fave weatherperson said years ago when early robins show up

It can be hard on them food wise so he always suggested buying earthworms, probably nightcrawlers at your local bait shop and spread them where you see them.

[multigraincracker]

5. In bad weather they can eat hawthorn berries.

[multigraincracker]

6. Honeysuckle is an invasive plant in

Michigan that they can eat year around.

[Greybnk48]

12. We buy the dried meal worms and put them out when they're here early. (N.E. Wisco) n/t

[senseandsensibility]

7. Our backyard is full of daffodils

but then again I'm in California. They bloom in early Feb. here and are gone by March.

[Still Waters]

8. When I was a child, the robins went away for the winter

They don't do that anymore--they stay here year around. Climate change I can see with my own eyes.

(Live in Hampton Roads, VA)

[Ms. Toad]

9. So did I. n/t

[róisín_dubh]

11. Thanks for the hopeful sign of spring

It has rained somewhere in the UK every day since the start of the new year. I’ve seen the sun twice in a month.
But as I lay here typing this I can hear the oystercatchers on the river below my flat, which is another sign spring is coming.