Outdoorsy Shite - April Top Trumps

[GrimmaTheNome]

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?

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!

I thought whimbrels were something you wore on your head?

Wimples, maybe?

Getting confused with tumbrils...

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

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.

Or do you mean sole?

And what about a tendril?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Welcome - what a perfect name for this game! 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.

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

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

probably the dullest trump ever but i tried

better late than never

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

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

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

nature has no trading standards

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

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

More fecking rain.

The swallows are regretting arriving me thinks.

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