When I read your post Toddy I looked at the thermometer out on deck, 7 Cel:
The year has turned most definitely. although I'm sure at home it may not feel like it just yet. Geese under the moon, fabulous! Were they silent or calling? Maybe the start of the long journey to their summer breeding grounds. I've had them fly over at night when I've been far out to sea, part of their navigation system uses the moon I believe. I've had other birds fluttering like great moths around the masthead light at night too, although I think most only fly at night when on passage of migration, apart from the normal nocturnal hunters of course.
Here every day gets a little warmer and the great white storks clack their bills and do strange courtship dances in the sunshine high up on their big 'twiggy' nests.
While you folks at home have had the snows, here it has rained heavily for long periods, still at least it's warm rain..The benefit is now the sun warms the ground and everywhere is coming to life, some of the wild flowers I have trouble identifying and it's weird seeing things like Trefoil and Bugloss flowering in February. But it's good to feel Mother Earth waking up. Regards to all Wicca.