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Outdoorsy Shite Top Trumps: March

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Slubberdegullion · 01/03/2012 19:01

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.

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TunipTheVegemal · 13/03/2012 18:10

Violets today Smile

And I am guaranteed lambs on Thursday because I'm helping take the preschool to visit the farm.

lostinwales · 13/03/2012 21:10

Crab, being eaten by a whippet (do you sense a theme here? Grin)

saggarmakersbottomknocker · 13/03/2012 21:16

Further Outdoorsy shite sit-in here, come add your voice

Grimma made me do it.

GrimmaTheNome · 13/03/2012 23:00

Oh that's right, blame me. Hmm

SeaShellsDreamingOfSummer · 14/03/2012 08:02
Grin I've spotted November fog in March. Can't see a bloody thing again this morning

Im crap at this this month aren't I. I'm hoping for a strong entry in April. Back flipping dolphins or something cool.

ArielNonBio · 14/03/2012 08:20

We've had thick fog for three blinkin' days Angry

AIBUqatada · 14/03/2012 08:29

There was a toad on my letterbox last night.

I'm sure that if there is a list somewhere of bad portents, toad-on-letterbox figures in it. What will I get in the mail today?

Northey · 14/03/2012 08:32

Is your letterbox very low down, qatada? Otherwise that's a toad with some spooky jumping powers.

AIBUqatada · 14/03/2012 08:36

It's waist height, fixed to a wall that has a raised bed level with its top, so not a super-toad, thankfully. Though that is small consolation. I don't really like toads and I resent having to use a spade to help the evil lumps out of the road when they are crossing it stupidly to get to our pond.

Northey · 14/03/2012 08:37

Misty here too, and I'm too cosy to go out and get cat food. Oh the shame.

SeaShellsDreamingOfSummer · 14/03/2012 09:20

Where are you Ariel? We are coastal and have had really thick fog each morning. Luckily is has lifted slightly each dy. Monday was beautiful.

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Slubberdegullion · 14/03/2012 09:38

qatada - with reference to animal stupidity points, going back to your fool-pheasant I seem to remember a while back being told somewhere on here, possibly in the DH that pheasants do that to lure the predator away from their nests. So the whole noisy flappy hysterical Run away! Run away! Is actually a most cunning and clever egg n' fledgling protection ploy.

Toads on the other hand are as thick as shit, the only thing going for them is the stop and grow skin secretions (I'm sure that's where they get that nail varnish, toad scrapings).

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Slubberdegullion · 14/03/2012 09:39

I'm going to get a spot today if it kills me.

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AIBUqatada · 14/03/2012 09:45

lol at toad scrapings. That could be an entry in the Alternative Farrow and Ball paints thread.

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Slubberdegullion · 14/03/2012 10:30
Grin

Have you ever seen a cane toad? They are seriously the most evil and revolting looking creatures on the face of the earth. Almost as if a KS1 brainstorm session for 'things that are disgusting' got fed into the computer from the classic teen 80s movie Weird Science and thus the cane toad was created instead of Kelly LeBrock.

Actually just thinking about them has made me come over all peculiar.

Will have to cleanse my mind with dog walk nature spotting session.

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ArielNonBio · 14/03/2012 10:44

SeaShells, I'm in West Cornwall. It has been freezing! But then it usually is when everywhere else is getting good weather

Sun's peeping through now though.

FreeButtonBee · 14/03/2012 10:49

Great thread!

I saw a fox in SW London curled up on the roof of a car in an underground car park

Northey · 14/03/2012 11:00

I saw 7 sparrows this morning. Common enough, you may think. But they were sitting just above head height in the bare, black branches of some sort of climber, and the rosy light of the rising sun was turning their pale little tummies pink and gold.

AIBUqatada · 14/03/2012 11:08

How lovely. That's almost enough to counteract the toad scrapings. Sunblushed Sparrowbelly probably already is a Farrow and Ball colour.

FreeButtonBee · 14/03/2012 11:09

Oh, also a 'nice' run of dead things at the weekend. They kept magically appearing in front of me and freaking me out:

  1. Dead frog - by the Thames
  2. Dead mouse - in a wood
  3. Dead fluffy baby bird - by the side of a main road - it was really just a ball of fluff so was v sad.

I think I should lay off the Outdoorsy Shite stuff for a while or there will be no Fauna left !

iseenodust · 14/03/2012 11:10

Loving the poetic nature of Northey's spot.

ExitPursuedByABear · 14/03/2012 11:11

Heard the curlews again this morning, but very foggy so couldn't see them.

And a dead hare Sad.

Northey · 14/03/2012 11:11

I am coming to realise that slubber was right - it's all about the scene-setting. 7 browny-grey birds in a bush just lacks a certain something.

AIBUqatada · 14/03/2012 11:13

Yes, actually. That was a wonderful diorama. I think that you are in a strong position to win with that.

Northey · 14/03/2012 11:14