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.

Ooooh the nesting buzzard is an indeed wonderful spot.

Losty I don't think you can play with shire horses but still how lovely and very period drama, you can be Tess of the wotsits but less doomed, stood on the beach with wind blown hair.

Today I saw a most interesting fungus that looked exactly like a black dog turd but stuck on the side of a dead tree trunk. I will have to return with camera to snap it for identification purposes.

Please may I join in? I am desperate to share my spot from yesterday :) Today a load of celendine, red campion (two tiny flowers) blackthorn in white bud, some red dead nettle and a distressing amount of flowering dandelion in my neighbours garden. We saw white violets and the usual amount of rabbits and lambs.

Of course violet . Very seasonal spottage you have there.

still two feet of frigging snow here. even the sudoku cougar has gone to ground.

if i was a proper cheater, i'd put the pics of the weasel from last summer on my profile and pretend it wasn't still ski season. harrumph. or the two sleeping baby newborn fawns, complete with all dapples.

[eh]

The weasel or the fawns were in a medicine wheel? Whaaaaaat?

Have you no March nature? What about a snow hare or lemming or some such??

Please may I join in? I am desperate to share my spot from yesterday :) Today a load of celendine, red campion (two tiny flowers) blackthorn in white bud, some red dead nettle and a distressing amount of flowering dandelion in my neighbours garden. We saw white violets and the usual amount of rabbits and lambs.

Oh and two butterflies, a tortoishell and another brown job, I'm not very good at butterflies

I love buzzards :)

Some turnstones on the beach. They're cute.

Ellis medicine wheel. On iPad so can't link.

Sort of stone ring formation with rays going out, built by native Americans to promote harmony or some such...

Tis on the top of a cliff which plunges down to the river - south Saskatchewan river I think, but could be wrong...

We were looking for cactii. But found fawns. Nestled down in the grass, completely invisible until you practically stepped on them.

The weasel was under a big slab of rock. It kept running underneath and then popping out at the other end, looking at me, then taking cover

Don't talk to me about red dead nettle. DH keeps hinting I need to weed one of our flower beds. Its covered in the bloody stuff.

whoa there another nature out of ancient culture spot but sadly not had in March

oh dear what a pity never mind

I plated twice there sorry, its my phone. It gets the better of me all the time, and ate my post about the hare from yesterday, totally defeated by technology emoticon .
Was taking ds, 10 months to his grandads for tea, hare got up out of hedge to cross road in front of us, not in any great hurry, it banker the drystone wall on the other side of road. As it dropped down so a female blackbird ( probably ) sort of rose upwards and backwards - I actually only got a view of a very ruffled buff undercarriage :) and a hawk went the other way,
All I can think is the hawk had just dropped onto its supper and the hare who was watching me and not Where it was going landed on its head

Posted not plated flaming phone

Weasels.do that a lot, there was one last week popping in and out of a wall, hoping that the terrier had gone (he hadn't) the are so not affraid, but quite cautious. One drowned a rabbit in a puddle in front of dp last year. Another had a juvenile rabbit by the nose and would not let go, I heard rabbit screaming and went to investigate.Normally the rabbit is dead by The time I get there, obviously this weasel had missed its neck and daren't let go for
the kill as the rabbit would beggar off. I got a stick and poked the weasel before it let go.
NOT March tho :)

Oo. Oo. Oo! Dh just wandered in from work and said casually 'the eagles are on their way back', as he'd seen two bald eagles on his way home, one over the golf course about half a mile away.

I told him he isn't allowed to play, and he looked at me like wtaf.

I think it's too early and it was a pigeon figment of his imagination.

Those weasels sound fantastic, violet. I would love to see one attacking a rabbit. They sound astonishing.

When DS was about nine he read that you could attract weasels (or stoats?) by kissing your palm, as the kiss noise would sound like a rabbit innocently out and about and ready to be killed.

He would stand in the woods for ages, kissing his hand noisily but for some reason no mustelids were forthcoming.

We had blonde weasel in the Ty Twt in the playground at school this week, it caused much excitement in the children and mild peril in the teachers. Luckily one of the mum's is a vet and was collared to retrieve it and take it away with her . Doe that count as a spot?

Great use of mustelids btw AIBUqatada

Thanks AIBU.

And I love the phrase Ty Twt. And all Welsh names for rooms and appliances in general really, especially popti ping!

mustelids

dh says he wants to play. there were a herd of elk at the end of our road this morning when he walked the dogs, and he saw a woodpecker on the telegraph pole on the way back. and the mountains were pink. perhaps it is spring after all?

i said he got up too early. all the self respecting wildlife has pissed off once the school run starts.

Pink mountains sounds very lovely indeed.

Today I saw two black grouse fighting. It wasn't very impressive. A bit like watching Dale Winton and Bill Oddie having a scuffle.

have just booked trip back to uk for mil's 70th. you know i'm now going to spend at least half of it trying to catch a glimpse of dale winton on the tv...

the things you miss, eh?

An otter is a mustelid isn't it?

you're a mermaid. you're supposed to know stuff like that - unfair advantage!