Spring, that is. Arrives some six weeks or so earlier here than in the UK and very welcome it is too. We are enjoying mild weather with some sun and showers, crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops are all popping up. The days are lengthening quite quickly too, not getting dark until turned seven in the evening now.
Our local magpies are busy nest building in between fending off the marauding rooks, our two doves returned a few days ago and will probably be here until late October. We have seen, and heard in the past week or so several huge flocks of cranes heading back to Russia to breed, one of nature's truly magnificent spectacles.
This weekend coming is the last of the annual hunting season so our local wildlife (deer, wild boars, hares ducks and game birds) will now have peace and quiet again until September when the new season begins.
March is almost here, that means the start of the sidecar racing season. I hope to get to a number of French meetings this season as well one or two back in England. One of the few things that I really miss about the UK is the great number of meetings every season to watch whereas they are relatively few here, not made any easier due to the size of France and that we live only two hundred miles from the Spanish border.
"Spring has sprung,
The grass has riz.
We know where the birdies is ..."
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