What are locally specific signs of spring where you live?

Posted by Sea-Still5427@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 24 comments

When the Romans came to where my town is now, they kept going as they thought it was unhealthy. The main river is slow-moving: as soon as the temperature goes over 15 degrees, there are clouds of midges, white fly appears in the garden, stopping the honeysuckle buds in their tracks, and I've got my first overnight mosquito bite. Probably good for nesting birds though as lots of food for them. What are the signs it's finally officially spring that locals would recognise where you live?

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L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit

Daffodils and Lambs. Where I live I'm literally surrounded all sides by either farms, fields or paddocks, yet weirdly I live in a terraced house. And, yeah, Lambabies. Everywhere you look, this time of year. Lambabies and Daff's. You don't have to plant them they just appear. That would be the Daff's, I hasten to add. Not the Lambabies.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

I need a lamb walk!

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L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit

Correct, yes. As far as the eyeballs can see.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Laminated cards through your door asking if you want to sell your house. Estate agents are one of the first signs of spring...

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Oh Lord, you're right. Comes around as sure as slimming clubs after Christmas.

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here-but-not-present@reddit

Skylarks 🙂

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Here too! Swiftly followed by me getting grumpy with people who let their dogs off the lead around ground-nesting birds in breeding season.

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here-but-not-present@reddit

I live in Orkney, so it's ground-nesting bird central up here. Does my head in too!

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Dolphin_Spotter@reddit

There's an increase in the number of Range Rover drivers who don't seem to know where reverse gear is when you meet them coming the other way in a narrow lane, on their way to the holiday home that they visit twice a year.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Know what you mean. Sounds like you live somewhere really nice though.

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abarishyper@reddit

Snow drop,, crocus, magnolia and camelia are all out super early.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Are you in the north? Magnolias are almost over here, few-flowered leek is on the rampage and cowslips are starting to appear.

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abarishyper@reddit

Quite the opposite, Southampton :) but yeah they are over real fast. Thorns are also out super early and almost over.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

I love blackthorn blossom! One of the first real scents of spring.

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Dedward5@reddit

People posting in the Cornwall sub about what to do on their holiday.

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Timely_Egg_6827@reddit

Bluebells and hawthorn

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YragNitram1956@reddit

Primroses. https://preview.redd.it/haztzgai1srg1.jpeg?width=940&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d371d4b18bcc15d150906a74194865d5fd6693fe

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PipBin@reddit

When I was little out in the countryside there would be a small prize for the first person to write to the parish magazine saying they had seen the first primrose.

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songbirds_and_snakes@reddit

Ospreys have arrived back.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Ooh, we don't have those. Are you on the coast somewhere?

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songbirds_and_snakes@reddit

Yes. South coast. There's a webcam for them. https://www.youtube.com/live/X62J9Jdm6Ao?si=-2XcAzQ7wfMPY5VU

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Sea-Still5427@reddit (OP)

Thank you!

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Over-Language2599@reddit

Sign of Spring from Stonehenge Ales available in the pubs.

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