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outdoors shite - I saw the first flight of cranes of the year!

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FryingNemo · 27/02/2012 18:55

Amazing. I heard them first and then saw them - I reckon there was about 100 of them so not a big flight but a wonderful sight nonetheless. Spring is on its way.

:)

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Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:21

I heard (sadly could not spot) not one, not two but three woodpeckers today. Now of course it may have been the same woodpecker stalking me sinisterly around the woods but I like to imagine it was a descent of woodpeckers I heard.

And yes the collective noun for woodpeckers is a descent. I just googled it.

[outdoorsy shite factoid]

GrimmaTheNome · 29/02/2012 18:24

I've just remembered I saw a flight of cranes once - last Easter, while standing in the ruins of Ephesus. Someone else had a pair of bins with them (hadn't occurred to me they could possibly be useful while visiting archaeological sites)

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:28

nearly made an extremely large OS (outdoorsy shite not ordinance survey but that they are the same letters) faux pas by asking how bins, dustbin bins, were useful.

But then I worked it out. ahhh bins Lovely.

GrimmaTheNome · 29/02/2012 18:30

Well done. OS folks need to have enough nous to work out that sort of thing.

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:35

A descent of woodpeckers? I shall use it where appropriate.

Can I joing Outdoorsy Shite? I am Very Outdoorsy and have never found you before due to you being in World Cup 2010 WTF.

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:36

Yes. I concur. Like the Fox, Goose and Bag of Beans river puzzle but with shortened words.

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:38

Welcome Ariel. You have to drop a descent of woodpeckers casual like into conversation to achieve the full impressive effect

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:39

Is that the initiation test?

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:42

Yes.

you must go forth onto another thread (not outdoorsy shite) and without doing a follow up 'oops sorry wrong thread' casually mention a descent of woodpeckers.

You have One Hour.

Go!

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:43

Oh fuck! Right, I'm on it......

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:50

i did it [proud]

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:55

Dunnit! Oh so easy....Grin
Look!

Though you might consider it to be cheating.

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:56

Ha ha ha! I bet there are people reading yours and being a little perplexed!

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 18:59

hahahahaa very good Grin

You are so in Ariel.

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 18:59
Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 19:20
Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 19:24

Probably not actually.

More like pair.

Need 3 peacocks to make a muster.

ArielNonBio · 29/02/2012 19:26

Ah. Well I think I can help there. Down the road in our village lives....yes!.... a muster of peacocks. For real.

mycatsaysach · 29/02/2012 19:27

i don't feed birds here as we have 3 cats

but when we first moved in we had a little thrush that used to tap on window for food
also a bird that impersonated a trim phone and one that sounded like a rusty old gate Grin

mycatsaysach · 29/02/2012 19:27

the thrushes now come into our garden to smash their snails on the rockery

Slubberdegullion · 29/02/2012 19:44

Ooooh just like in the Hobbit, cat

Ariel Envy @ rl muster.

FryingNemo · 29/02/2012 19:44

But can they speak?

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FryingNemo · 29/02/2012 19:47

No crane sitings today as I had to sit in dull boring office but I nearly hit a heron as I drove out of the village this morning.

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madwomanintheattic · 29/02/2012 19:47

We aren't allowed to put food out for the birds as it attracts all sorts lol. Grin

We did find a chipmunk in dd's room in the basement when ds moved a cushion, though... Spent an hour trying to shoo it out of the door.

Then the following week we kept hearing scratching in the walls, we laid a few traps and caught a chipmunk, celebrated, but the scratching didn't stop. and I eventually made dh cut a big fuck off hole in the plasterboard because it was driving me crazy. Nothing there. So I made him cut a bigger hole further back, obv.

He peeked in and then slammed it shut really quickly, holding the section in place and squealing 'quick, quick, there's two, get my work gloves and a box or bag or something'. I disappeared into the garage to find stuff and then could hear him squealing, ran back to see if he was ok (thinking, shit, rabies) and he said 'one got out!' (and apparently ran up his arm and over his shoulder in the process). So he's still holding the bit of wall in the hole, and I'm running around trying to herd the two squirrels that had escaped (!) out of the door, going 'there's two! There's two! Are you sure there's another one in there?' so he looks and drops the bit of wall, another one runs over his head, and he makes a wild grab inside the wall and comes out with two more, sort of caught by the legs and going doolally) which he runs out of the door with and launches off the deck... We spent fecking hours corralling them and getting them outside, but it was the funniest afternoon we've had in a long time. They were everywhere on the beds, climbing up the ironing board, running under the furniture.... The squirrels that flew c/o dh spent hours in one of the trees outside, chattering and swearing and staring at the house.

Dh thinks they have spent the winter plotting and will be back in the spring.

FryingNemo · 29/02/2012 19:50

My sandals were stolen by racoons when I was a kid.

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