it's not unusual
The days are drawing out, the snowdrops are already fading, the cherry trees and crocuses are coming into bloom, and the robin in the garden has started belting out his song. All winter he has warbled away like Tom Yorke. Today he is Tom Jones.

Sunday 17 February 1661
A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon, by an Irish Doctor. His text was “Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in war.” Sir Wm. Batten and I very much angry with the parson.
Samuel Pepys