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Outdoorsy Shite - April Top Trumps

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GrimmaTheNome · 01/04/2012 19:01

Rules as before - nature 'spots' fauna and flora, points for rarity (absolute or relative to where seen), seasonality, eloquence of description. Please declare if you're in forrin parts or a mermaid.

Did I cover everything?

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 26/04/2012 14:01

Whimbrels are dead similar to curlews AIBU. They have slightly shorter beaks which don't curve as much, and are smaller birds generally. Their call isn't as lovely either

Grimma I think you have just been on the same website as me!

FryingNemo · 26/04/2012 15:27

I thought whimbrels were something you wore on your head?

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2012 15:36

Wimples, maybe? Grin

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FryingNemo · 26/04/2012 15:48

Getting confused with tumbrils...

ExitPursuedByABear · 26/04/2012 16:09

This reminds me of a Morecombe and Wise sketch about Cassocks, Tussocks, Cossacks, Toshacs (sp?), Hassocks ..........

Grin
AIBUqatada · 26/04/2012 16:18

If I'd been forced to guess I would have said that a whimbrel was a whimsical umbrella. Lacking the weather-protective qualities of technical trousers but good for the soul.

FryingNemo · 26/04/2012 16:57

Or do you mean sole?

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 26/04/2012 17:41

And what about a tendril?

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2012 19:55

Today, just the local park and the bit of canal near it. Swan keeping pace beside us looking at the dog; then we see his mate on a nest on the other side. This is well within Preston; there's houses along most of the non-towpath bank. So that's my urban spot.

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violetwellies · 26/04/2012 19:56

I love that word, makes me think of damp hair in wet ringlets. Todays spot, one wet hare ;)

violetwellies · 26/04/2012 20:02

That was supposed to be a smile, thwarted by technology again Grin

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 26/04/2012 20:03

I have seen nothing today. Nothing at all. Not even gulls.

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2012 20:11

Oh, I saw a sodding great big black-backed gull swooping over the Blackpool Road just outside the park.

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Northey · 26/04/2012 20:16

Endlessly wheeling gulls against a grey sky. That's pretty much it, unless you count a dead wood louse on the carpet.

littlebrownmouse · 26/04/2012 20:18

Ooh, can I play? We've had a greater spotted woodpecker on the bird feeder in our northern, suburban garden every morning for the last ten days. Until today, he didn't come this morning. Sad

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2012 21:14

Welcome - what a perfect name for this game! Smile Its quite something when you get something as big and showy as a woodpecker on a feeder.

I have a late entry for tonight - a bat circling our garden, at least six times clockwise then a couple of turns anticlockwise before disappearing into the side alley.

I hadn't seen any since the early spot in March so pleased - I was afraid they'd de-hibernated too early.

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mrspnut · 26/04/2012 21:17

I saw a female pheasant wandering down our lane earlier, I think it had been playing at the park across the road.

UnChartered · 26/04/2012 21:20

a bit late to this party Blush but we have white bluebells growing in the woods near us

probably the dullest trump ever but i tried

GrimmaTheNome · 26/04/2012 21:23

better late than never Grin

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FryingNemo · 26/04/2012 21:46

Saw the sounder again. Yay for wild pigs. I bet they eat bluebell bulbs for breakfast. ;)

UnChartered · 26/04/2012 21:49

they could eat white ones if they lived in deepest darkest Northants!

FryingNemo · 26/04/2012 21:51

White bluebells. Seriously? It must be a breach of trading standards or something!

UnChartered · 26/04/2012 21:55

nature has no trading standards Grin

but seriously, yes - white bluebells, i'll try to upload pics in the morning if anyone is bored enough to look at them

ExitPursuedByABear · 26/04/2012 22:47

We have very pale pink (could class as white) bluebells in the woods.

More fecking rain.

The swallows are regretting arriving me thinks.

Northey · 26/04/2012 23:45

That bat sounds witchily precise, grimma. Do you think it was counting?

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