First signs of spring

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Spring is a hopeful season! It brings transformation and change; from darkness to light, from cold to warmth, from grey to bursts of color. It is a time for cleaning house, new growth in gardens, and baby animals. The new life, new beginnings, and bright, colorful new look that spring brings are hopeful signs that life on this earth renews again and again. We don’t remain in any one season or cycle in life indefinitely. Seasons change. (Info from here)

Tiffi hears some bird singing. As she walks she continues her Google search to find out more about the animals and the first signs of spring. She never knew that blackbirds are one of our most common birds that sing one of the sweetest spring songs.  As she continues walking she notices other signs of spring.

She comes across some articles that mention some animals that hibernate and appear again in the spring. Wow there are quite a few animals that hibernate during the cold months, bears, snakes, turtles, hedgehogs, bats, bumblebees, butterflies, squirrels and frogs! She takes a liking to this cute little hedgehog picture in one article. 

The European brown hares are generally nocturnal and shy in nature, hares change their behaviour in the spring, when they can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around in fields. During this spring frenzy, they sometimes strike one another with their paws ("boxing"). This is usually not competition between males, but a female hitting a male, either to show she is not yet ready to mate or as a test of his determination. (Wikipedia)

The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4 m (13 ft) deep, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) wide. (Wikipedia)

The baby eaglets have a fluffy little head of downy gray. They will gain about a half pound to a pound every week for the first 9-10 weeks of its life. Very interesting information.

“This adventure is amazing,” Tiffi thinks. “I hope that the players aren’t in a rush for my help because I am really enjoying these early signs of spring. I will have to write Kimmy when I get home. She is not going to believe all that I am seeing. Or maybe I will call her.”

No text messages on her phone so she continues her adventure.

Let's continue with the next part of our story – More signs of spring

Start at the beginning of the story – Springtime in Candy Town