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.

I also did a leg clearance this morning. None of us is letting down the side of Nature. It is like bush fires - very important for life cycle renewal and so on.

A couple of other favourites from this month - viva's early morning hares in a field. And ?losty's low flying red kite with a mouse in its beak.

Legs, Ariel?

I'm beginning to doubt you are really a mermaid.

oh hello! :o

Welcome Agincourt. You have a couple of days to tell us about your hares and the birthing cow.

lol, I best tell you now. The poor cow was bounding around the field mooing in pain whilst this poor calf was just hanging out the back The rest of the herd had all grouped together and were facing the other way as if to give her privacy :o

Thehares are about everywhere here atm :) and I had to stop to let a peacock cross the road the other day! First time ever

Monday morning, mist in the rising sun, Stonehenge emerging ethereally, as I drive over the hill commuting to work, and hovering above a Buzzard!

A totally wonderful morning

got some birds nesting in the garage roof, and yesterday found half an eggshell on garage floor. the chicks are here! can hear them cheeping, and mum n dad birds are constantly in and out with food for them. luckily, the cat is old and lazy and couldnt catch a mouse if it scurried into her open mouth or i'd be a bit worried bout letting her out

AIBU....um...I have legs at the moment. I have had a spell cast on me you see.

Should be back to normal shortly.

I do admire the precision of a spell which not only curses a mermaid with legs, but specifies that they should be hairy ones.

Yeah. Bitch.

Bit late to the conversation I had a jackdaw as a child, it fell down a antique dealer's chimney she gave it to my mum to rear. It followed me to (primary) school and ruined an important football fixture by sitting on the goalkeeper's head, and pulling out her hair, headmaster said if it came to school again he would shoot it.
People kept stealing her and my mum had to keep rescuing her, one place they had her in a cardboard box, in the house. She wasn't a housepet, we had to keep the windows shut to stop her coming in and nicking stuff. Toilet tissue mostly :) She made a fabulous nest out of a riot of coloured tissue in a tree in the garden. Eventually she was stolen for the last time and this time my mother couldn't get her back.

Oh and some sucker took my pet lambs I bJibed them with a dozen eggs.

Bribed

Oh that pet jackdaw sounds wonderful, and so does the colourful tissue nest. How sad that she was taken away.

I have a hand-reared cockatiel as a pet. She is a darling, very very tame, and stands on my head while I hoover. I must be sure to keep her away from football matches.

Hand reared birds are great fun, but I do wonder what its like for them, especially when they really should be wild. And they are such hard work to rear (still recovering from lambs emoticon)

I want a hand reared corvid

me too, will have to start tempting them down with more securely attached fleece.

Well, I narrowly avoided knocking over two love crazed red squirrels this morning as they cavorted on the cobblestones. They tried very hard to die in the pursuit of love. In the end I peeped the horn. Love is blind, deaf, dumb and stupid sometimes.
Or rather, lust.

WELL - get this - a Moorland fire! In March!

No doubt the forecasted snow will help the fire brigade to put it out.

Is that the Pennines Exit?

Has turned bloody icy here.

Yep - the Pennines - It was cold and gloomy this morning but the hillside on my journey to the horse was smoking and a fireman was tramping through the heather to get to it. It has been dry for, oh, at least a week, and very warm, but I was surprised that the moor was burning.

I've been holed up working the last two days - but yesterday eating lunch in the garden looked up to see a buzzard wheeling overhead. Never seen one here before. Wondered if he was attracted by the gnawed bones on our lawn - come good weather, the dog loves a good bone and the local butchers gives them away in huge bags. I tend to leave them awhile as sometimes birds will extract marrow from further in than the dog can reach.

Today - a horsechestnut tree with properly out leaves

Harking back - you know what those noisy geese are honking to all and sundry?

'I AM A CANADIAN'

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