Outdoorsy Shite Top Trumps: March

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Flora or Fauna.

Extra points for a photo.

Handicap will apply to those in Forrin. Monthly win will not automatically go to, for example, a Cougar spot. The Cougar will need to be doing something awesome, like fighting a bear or doing sudoku.

Ive just heard my first chattering swallows. I think. By the time I'd stood up, swung round, got blinded by the sun and recovered I couldnt see them, but it was Definately swallow like chattering!

I like the idea of MNHQ judging the spots-I should think they would welcome a break from F4J !!

Hmm I hit send and now am wondering if it is swifts that chatter

Answers on a postcard

I am 90% certain that I have just seen my first treecreeper.

Lambs in the field. Facts from the farmer's wife - they are one week old and today is first day out.

Not sure what was stealthy about that!

If you want to see lots of cute fluffy little big-eyed baby seals at about 2 metres distance and not be in trouble for getting that close you need the Lincolnshire coast end of Nov.

The first painted lady of the year is sunning itself on one of window sills in the last rays of the evening. Sooo beautiful.

I hope the cat does not find it.

I feel a namechange coming on. Thanks for the inspiration, TopTrumpers.

A treecreeper, Norf? Where? What time? Was is up a tree? What was it doing? Et cetera.

Seals for me and a kittiwake.

Mid afternoon. It was in a wooded area along the valley and was sort of hopping up tree trunks. Most interesting. I also saw two cormorants sitting on some dead boughs sticking up out of the water.

Were they...... on the Wye?

They were! And very dark and brooding they looked too. Most incongruous in the blazing sunshine. How was your kittiwake?

Oh you know. Flapping and darting along. As they do.

Big fat bumble bee and some fabulous birdsong is about the best I can muster today - and my the curlew of course, visible today as it was clear.

Pink Pennines in the setting sun, and some rather lovely flies hovering about the drive in the dying rays of the sun - I drove slowly to avoid damage.

Maybe we should all put our location in our hover - that would assist in identifying Spring's march northwards and explain some of what to me are pretty unusual sightings - yes I am looking at you Ariel......

Will county suffice?

Anyway, Ariel said 'On the sea. In Cornwall.' so its probably a notable day when she doesn't see a kittiwake.

There was a deer stood in the beck at the bottom of our garden this morning, that's only about 6 metres from the house so got a really good look before opening the patio doors and scaring it to death, not literally to death, but it sure did bolt it.

Today I was virtually deafened by the skylarks on my walk back from school this morning. And then when we got back from nursery this afternoon DD and I watched a kestrel hovering 10ft off the ground, 10m away. And all this on the edge of a housing estate in central Scotland.

How do you do a hover?

Go to MyMumsnet (link at top of page); log in; then I think its registration details, anyhow the same place you'll need to go if you want to namechange, fill in User Status, save.

OooOOOOoooh.

I've now located.

Coal tit

Some sort of finch. (crap with finches)

I love finches. Goldfinches are my favourites.