{"id":38274,"date":"2026-02-13T00:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38274"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:49:06","slug":"early-hints-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38274","title":{"rendered":"Early Hints of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walking around town on a sunny war mid-50s February day early hints of spring were everywhere. Oregon snowpack is ~30% of average and thankfully a big rain storm is heading this way next week, but things still seem early this year. (Remember opening an image shows better resolution – the flowers especially)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near home flowers blooming, trees starting to bloom … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If the flowers didn’t convince you, how about great blue herons building nests in a new roosting tree? (for some reason they abandoned the previous one about 100 yards away; the new tree suffers way less human traffic). Water birds were strutting their stuff working to get a girl. A jay on the ground while the audience was in the bush – she didn’t seem impressed with his ground game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally this lone great blue heron found a fishing hole where the Mill Race is damned up; the red water plant \/ algae (?) was everywhere on the Mill Race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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