Birds Singing Before February
Should the feathered songsters sing before February it is a sign of hard, ungenial weather. This applies particularly to the blackbird and throstle. The following lines embody this faith:—
Os cân yr adar cyn Chwefror, hwy griant cyn Mai.
If birds sing before February, they will cry before May.
Thus their early singing prognosticates a prolonged winter.—Bye-Gones, vol. i., p. 88.