What do you "assign" to the Shire?

[Firefoot]

I think I'll stick with the general spring theme here and assign Robins. You know when you see one of them, Spring has definately sprung!!

A few years I would have agreed with you, but now my city seems to have acquired a flock of really stupid robins that stick around all winter, even when it gets close to 0 degrees... So they're not much of a teller for spring anymore. But they are delightful birds. So are cardinals. And gold finches.

Spring break is also definitely Shire-worthy.