A Sign of Spring???

[W1RKW]

On my way home from work this afternoon I was sitting at a traffic light waiting for it to change.  The intersection where I was waiting is rather large and it has rather large grass islands in it.  While I was sitting there I couldn't help but notice a rather large group of birds going nuts around this one tree.  As I got closer to them most of these birds turned out to be male and female Robins.  I counted at least 23 of them.  I've never seen them in groups like this before which surprised me but nonetheless I was even more surprised to see them at this time of year.  I guess they're confused.

[WA1GFZ]

Let's hope they have a good place to hide the next few days.

[Pete, WA2CWA]

So was Phil the groundhog!

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[k4kyv]

Summerlike QRN last night.  The first QRN I have heard for almost a month.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Tulips and daffodils are 3 inches out of the ground here.

The QRN last night was likely from the big storm in the midwest. I heard less static on my SE receive antenna than on the SW or NW.

[wb1aij]

Most years some robins come up north early. They group together at my Japanese crab apple trees to eat the dried up fruit. Normally they are bug eaters. This year I first saw them here in East Hartford about 3 weekends ago.

As far as the flowers go I normally have crocus blooming by the 3rd week of February on the south side of the house. The purple ones are earliest. There is always plenty of winter after this.

[N8LGU]

    I noticed, yesterday, that the robins have returned to Rock Cave. They are about a month early this year. They are eating the swollen buds on my maple trees. Also noticed Spring=like QRN as Don did. Makes me think about Hamfesters!

[WA1GFZ]

The static on 160 last night was nothing compared to the idiot slop buckets who now trash the gray hair net each week.
They park 5 KHz away and transmitt 6 KHz audio. Ah the new CB band

[k4kyv]

And no doubt complain about the AM QRM.