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.

The Canada Geese round here are noisy bastards. My spaniel doesn't chase them, honest

Seen not den

A bird with a broken wing. It was fairly heart-rending, actually, as you ask. It was lying in the fallen leaves, occasionally trying to fly. I lifted it and launched it (only a couple of feet above the ground) but it just tumbled back down. Not sure what type - it had wing markings rather like a goldfinch, but was a goldy green all over.

I did get a photo, actually ( along with bluebell PROOF for ariel) so I might try to upload it for birdier brains than mine.

The biggest worm in Christendom.

Am rofling away at the Canada geese embodiment though. It will tickle me all day the meeker everyone is...

Can all you bluebell experts let me know if I have gracious English (Welsh?!) bluebells or if I'm cursed with it's chavvy forrin cousin? Not a very good photo but the dog was trying to help.

Broken wing bird is very sad, I've tried to rescue birds like that before but it never ends well. I was very sad as the baby magpie that fell into the school playground died, it used to perch on my shoulder when I walked around the house and I quite liked the idea of letting it back into the wild and being able to freak new parents out by calling 'Merlin' and having a full grown bird land on my shoulder

I believed you

That looks forrin to me. Not at all like my graceful English/Welsh version which I shall circulate shortly.

I think the photo is inconclusive. We need to see the same bluebells when they are fully open, I think, to analyse the droopage pattern, which seems to be a key identifier.

How can I do photos from my phone? How? How?

I always end up emailing them to myself Northey and then saving them from there, faffy but it works, there must be a better way. What ever happened with the blended cow family btw, I was thinking about them today when I went for a walk [sad but true emoticon]

that my bluebells look chavvy. Would a better quality photo make them look more graceful

Today I saw lots and lots of starfish in the rock pools.

Blended cow family is doing well, thanks I have some photos of them, too. I shall give in and do it all on my laptop.

I think they are forrin.

But I still like you, LostInWales.

sorry, I think they are chavbells too....not just the droop factor but also in a big clump.....

Felt proud today of twiddling a bit of wire into a cunning holder for bits of sheeps fleece and hung it up in a tree for wee birdies to make nests with, only to find one flamin jackdaw pulled out the lot and then nicked the wire thing too and has probably rammed it all down next door's chimney.

I love jackdaws.

Jackdaws are really clever aren't they, like all corvids I remember seeing one on Springwatch which had been filmed following a squirrel round a wood. The squirrel was burying its nuts in different places and the jackdaw was watching, and when the squirrel had moved on, the jackdaw dug them up and started eating them. If the squirrel ever stopped and looked suspicious, the jackdaw would hide behind the nearest tree. So funny!

Siskens! 2 of them.

Haha @ the theiving Jackdaw nicking your wire fleece holder chix

Incidentally I am going to use the word chavbells from now on :)

For the last couple of years I have seen a corvid on my local dog walking field which had lots of white on its wings. This morning I saw one that was more white than black, so I presume it is the offspring of the earlier one and there must be a mutant gene which creates the white feathers. I did take a picture on my phone and will look at trying to upload it.

Loads of noisy blue tits.

Have just heard that the forecast is for snow on the Pennines next week!

Siskens!

Siskens!

Two!

Siskens! no idea what you are all going on about but I hate being left out

Love a corvid, very very intelligent breed make type family of birds, incidentally did you know the earliest corvid fossils date to the mid-Miocene, about 17 million years ago. (Oh google you are my friend )

Do you realise that I was googling 'English Bluebells' at 7am this morning leaving the children to go feral? You are all correct though, I have chavbells, never mind some of them are white and I think they look really pretty. Thank you for not turfing me off the thread though.