{"id":350,"date":"2011-03-20T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:40:45","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2011\/03\/20\/spring-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is Here!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring arrives today, March 20, in southern Ontario at 7:21 p.m.\u00a0 Although the season will have officially begun, we can expect a few last wintery blasts before shorts and t-shirts replace the long-johns and wool socks in my dresser drawers.<\/p>\n

The vernal, or spring, equinox is the date on which the sun is positioned directly over the equator giving equal parts daylight and darkness to the world.\u00a0 In the southern hemisphere, today is the autumnal equinox.<\/p>\n

Robins and red-winged blackbirds have returned in numbers, the vanguard of turkey vultures have floated northwards in search of non-frozen food, and all the other resident songsters are in full chorus staking their claim to various territories.\u00a0 Chipmunks, groundhogs, raccoons,\u00a0 opossums and skunks have all awoken and and are busily foraging to replace lost stores of fat and to feed young that have, or will soon be born in their dens.<\/p>\n

There are snowdrops flowering in my neighbour\u2019s garden, skunk cabbage is enticing beetles and early flies to enter it\u2019s smelly spathe, and a whole host of other wildflowers will burst into bloom once the soil warms and the sun intensifies.<\/p>\n

Enjoy, and although gardening and dinner on the deck are likely a few weeks off yet, winter is now behind us…<\/p>\n

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Eastern Chipmunk<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring arrives today, March 20, in southern Ontario at 7:21 p.m.\u00a0 Although the season will have officially begun, we can expect a few last wintery blasts before shorts and t-shirts replace the long-johns and wool socks in my dresser drawers. The vernal, or spring, equinox is the date on which the sun is positioned directly […]<\/p>\n

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