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Outdoorsy Shite - April Top Trumps

526 replies

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?

OP posts:
loiner45 · 03/04/2012 20:28

oo can I play?

I saw bats last night, in the garden - only ever seen them in a zoo before so very chuffed.

LostInWales · 03/04/2012 22:13

Bats are very cool. Welcome Grin

DeepThought · 03/04/2012 22:25

not much today, we got hailed on tremendously Angry

anyway:

long tailed tits, about 9 altogether, chasing and flinking through the trees, cuties

Eggsits · 03/04/2012 22:55

Shit - tis snowing.

Hope all the small things have somewhere warm to shelter.

loiner45 Where are you with your bats?

MegBusset · 03/04/2012 22:58

Yesterday I found the most amazing pond, it was absolutely seething and I mean seething with frogs, tadpoles and frogspawn. Must have been thousands of them in a pond that was really just a big puddle.

Eggsits · 03/04/2012 23:03

Oh do stop showing off.

Still not a lamb.

loiner45 · 04/04/2012 08:22

Hi egsit south coast - so no snow here yet, sunny but with a chill in the air - kept awake by foxes last night - they def thought spring had arrived Grin

Northey · 04/04/2012 10:57

From my train window just now, an upwards sloping field of young crops,, against which flew three crows, black against the fresh April green.

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:04

Write a poem, write a poem!

Where are you going?

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:11

Back to Wales (sigh). I shall see how poetical I can be between now and Bristol...

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:20

When you go along the Severn under the Bridges, that's a good poetically inspirational place.

I remember writing about the sun glinting on the silver estuary, the patterns in the sandbanks, the fresh green of Spring and the ephemeral white bridge soaring etc etc etc when I was going back to the Midlands to University.

Of course I don't know which route you're taking Grin Going under the river is considerably less inspiring.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:27

Blackly gliding corvid shadows,
Daytime night against the green
Of swelling crop buds, April verdure.
Sex and death as one are seen.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:28

Terribly trite last line - sorry. Am going the uninspiring route. That must be why.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:29

Oh dear, I'm actually cringing at the stylistic poverty of the last line now.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:31

I might as well have ended with "and then I woke up and it was all a dream."

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:33

It was very good, Northey.

I liked the word verdure.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:33

I might as well have ended with, "And then I woke up and it was all a dream."

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:34

And poetry on demand is very hard.

"Write a poem about the route from Bristol to Newport. Now. Do it now. Go on."

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:37

Next spot just in: a very fat fox cantering stolidly up the edge of a field.

Anyone else want to chip in with a poetical spot?

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:41

Um....from where I am now? A jackdaw sitting on the compost heap

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:44

In verse, silly.

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:45

A jackdaw
Sitting on the compost heap
Tearing stale crusts with its corvid's beak
The greedy fucker.

Howzzat?

iseenodust · 04/04/2012 11:53

Ariel don't know where you live but if you want vast numbers of red kites schedule a visit to Harewood House. We went last summer for a family day thing so it was heaving with people, fairground type attractions and a big stage (bangra drums were pretty loud!). I counted 30 red kites at one point and they were most interested in scavenging. As this is outdoorsy shite you could choose a nearby quiet lane on a quiet day.

Northey · 04/04/2012 11:54

Very bold. Immediate, one might say.

ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 04/04/2012 11:55
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