[reststep]

The osprey are back at the Kitsap County Fair Grounds. I will try and get some pictures later. There are some pictures here but they are not from this year.

[NacMacFeegle]

I've posted a gallery of spring flower photos on my blog: http://illuminationsfromtheattic.blogspot.com

[Pyrites]

Light dust off a gravel road. FS 29, GPNF. It has been pleasant this spring, no dust, and for fair weather hikers, very little mud out and about on gravel roads.

[gb]

Soon, "Signs of summer". Wildflowers are well past peak on sunny slopes in the Ellensburg, Yakima area but holding on nicely yet on north slopes.

[Frosty]

I gave up and mowed the lawn yesterday. Frost on a mowed lawn this morning....incongruous or what?

[Olympic Hiker]

Bumpity bump. I've noticed a few things around the yard so far. Daffodils popped up a few weeks ago. Red flowering currant starting to leaf out. Elderberry starting to bud. Trailing blackberry leaves starting to grow. A Pacific Wren was singing away at full volume today. Not really a sign, but there are a couple small patches of bare ground at Hurricane Ridge that I noticed on the webcams over the last 5 days.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Seen some crocus lately and the heather has been blooming like crazy for weeks, maybe almost a month.

[camut]

Major chorus of spring peeps in the woods around my house last night. Flowering currant is in bloom at Rosario/Deception Pass.

[meandering Wa]

yes,heard peepers for the first time last week.. Lots of Robin song and tuning up at dawn my bulbs, which I pulled and set aside on the pot stand, are sprouting. They went into the planter today Seeing Culicoides ( no see ums) flying

[tmatlack]

Indian plum blossoming at Champoeg State Park near Newburg, OR. (Site of 1st territorial capital!) Tom

[mike]

Frog chorus has been deafening for the last three+ weeks. Earliest that I can remember for years.

[LizzyRN]

Lots of frog serenades for the past few weeks in Mount Vernon. Saw 8-9" tall daffs over the weekend on Orcas. Buds on trees. It's too soon!

[meandering Wa]

have been hearing chickadees doing their "sweee Deee" (courtship) call

[bk]

Saw a substantially-sized, lone mosquito in my Mukilteo apartment about Thurs., Feb. 11th. Surprising. (Also, frogs are out this past week.)

[Joey]

First viola is blooming in one of our beds. Indian Plum is blooming. Meanwhile, I traded email today with someone in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior where there is 3' of snow on the ground.