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?

The first peeping out of the compost spud plant - spotted today at 4pm, bottom of the garden.

4 buzzards wheeling over a stand of trees, spotted about 3.30pm from the back door.

Can I just say how fab it is to find some fellow nature lovers here?!

Welcome Selks.

Thank you

A stoat today on bike ride in Herts - ran across road.

WOW, a bike riding stoat beats 4 buzzards.

Have to get this spot down before I come to my senses and realise it was all but a figment of my early morning imagination.

The sun rises over a sleepy Cheshire village. A soft grey light filters through the trees. I would love to say there was mist. In the film version there is mist.
There in the middle of the road, each equidistant from the central line markings a pair of ducks and a pair of carrion crows sat frozen in a diorama of silent menace. You could have cut the tension with a knife.
If anyone has got to the end of the Twilight books it was like the Cullens and The Volturi slogging it out WITH THE POWER OF THEIR MINDS, but slightly less vampiric.
Such was their focus on not losing the stare-off we were almost upon them before they realised our presence. And then a Deux Ex Labradorae broke up the avian mind battle and they were gone.

Spooky it was. And powerful.

Note to self - do not report wildlife sighting after wine!

I'll try and do better next weekend. First stoat I've seen (crossing the road it was).

The stoat on a bike ride deffo wins most surreal spot for April and we are only two days in. Bet the pedals we right up next to the saddle for its little legs to reach.

Dear, clever little stoat! And duck/crow early morning face off is fabulous. Early contender for lyrical trump of the month right there.

I am heading off shortly for a morning stroll. I am hoping to see a trout piloting a light aircraft, and a full on Western style shoot out between some field mice and harvest mice.

I am not getting a bike for The ferret, and I'm not sure about reporting spots of performing animals on here.

I'm not sure about reporting spots of performing animals on here

Its fine so long as they are wild and displaying their natural talents - in the original rules, furriners could only report cougars if they were playing Su Doku, IIRC . If your DH trains his ferret to, say, tightrope walk, by all means tell us but don't expect points

Red kite lazily circling. We know some live some miles to the west of here but I've never known one near us.

No spot to add but . Just

I have never seen a red kite!

I can hear a little owl calling right now, as I lay in my bed. They live in the fields around my house.

Oh now I would love to hear or see owls regularly. I will be very admiring of owl and owl-related spots.

I hear owls every night. And when walking the dog last thing before bed you can see their shapes in the trees. If the security light comes on they shout!

Still not a single bloody lamb though. I have been told where they are, so maybe I will take a detour on my way to the stables....

Excited

Just seen a Kingfisher flying down the river. Had taken Bastarddog to get him clean after a bit of bog snorkelling down the bridlepath, and there it was, its turquoise irridescence shimmering as it flew between the banks.

Oh lucky you, all I've seen today is weather. :) I'm very greatful for the rain, but even so its a bit wet.

Cold too. I'm even guessing that the bobble hat has been recommissioned. What will become of all the bees butterflies ladybirds &etc? They are surely doomed.

Hello, no April spot worth bragging about yet, but love reading yours!

Today I saw:
Wild boar. Deer. Woodpeckers. Peacock. Goats. Sheep. Lama. Alpaca. Ibis (white and red). An electric eel. Piranhas. Tortoises. Bats. Parrots.
And an infinite number of small children.

Some dolphins.

Nemo.

I have mostly seen the inside of softplay today.