May Top Trumps....wildlife geeks step this way and get your spots in here!

[ArielThePiraticalMermaid]

I'll start - I'm hoping that someone will do better than an infernal wood pigeon and obnoxious noisy herring gull. Before the morning is up, hopefully.

And remember, cast ne'er a clout til May be out.

How do I put something in my hover? Completely clueless.

Heron!

I was shocked to see a magpie as we don't have them here.(but that was in April so does not count)

Ignore me, I've actually read further back and done it.

Just garden birds today.

Baby blackbird being fed by both parents - when it got alarmed by something it scuttled into a little hidey hole between three of my patio pots - about 1ft through the glass from my feet.

Lots more male blackbirds singing their hearts out. Some have quite distinctive phrases in their songs.

And (small fanfare) a trio of sparrows - house, hedge (OK, that's a dunnock which isn't really a sparrow) and a tree sparrow.

Dd in from a school walk in the hills and they saw a white wild deer.

Sorry I can't write actual details here, but today I have seen an actual real monster. I am beside myself . It was the spot of the bloody century.

You can PM me for details

I don't know, there am I all delighted by my tree sparrow, and there's GO with a wild white deer and Ariel with a blimmin monster!

As you know I am a bashful person who doesn't like to show off

Sorry, I wouldn't normally shout this loud but I did nearly wet myself with excitement.

Ariel I need to know but can't pm as the tablet won't open links today.

A Muntjac and the dog came eyeball to eyeball today. They stood and stared at each other for a bit then turned their backs on each other and walked away.

at monster.

The deer dd and her class saw is an albino red deer which is quite well known in the area around the school. Photo in the paper and everything and on youtube. (Deer not dd)

Albino red deer? ? That must look like the Pure White Stag from Narnia! Wow.

Wow to the white deer!

One pair of Wheatears, that's my best today.

(Can't log in so can't fix hover- keep resetting password but I seem locked out. But Derbyshire. The hilly bit.)

It must be wow. There's a white fallow deer stag in the herd at Dunham Massey (NT) - that reminded me of narnia. It was hanging out with a normal and a melanistic stag when we saw it last year.

Sorry I've only just returned to the thread. Have been busy with th elesser spotted Lying Cheating Insurance Company all day !

I think it must have been a staot, Grimma, because your link says that stoats don't mind altitude, and this was quite high up.

Exit and Selks, I was just coming out of Cragg VAle. Anywhere near either of you?

I also have a Heron that I see most days, flying up and down the river just in front of my house. We love watching the heron, he's so prehistoric!

Oh! I should also tell you about the bats that fly around in front of my upstairs windows on warm evenings, just around twilight. Fantastic to watch!

That is about two miles from me Ami!!

Saw several red kite today. Greater spotted woodpecker on the nut feeders. No otters although they are plentiful here and we often see them. I am another one traumatised by the spade in Ring of Bright Water. I still have the noise of it in my head....urghh.
I want to know about the monster! (pleeeeease pm me).

About 2 miles from me, too, Selks. We really are next door neighbours, aren't we?

Indeed Ami...

have private messaged you, Ami.

Is Cragg Vale near Hardcastle Craggs? Know that well.

Yes, just a couple of miles, Exit.

round here, everything's just a couple of miles from Cragg Vale

('Beware the Moors, Lads')

Yes, and that's as the crow flies!

Ami Exit and Selks I was born and brought up just a few miles away from you all (although in Red Rose territory!)

I managed to get a photo of a great spotted woodpecker in my garden yesterday :) not a very good photo as it was on my phone and through the window but it's clearly a woodpecker so I'm extremely pleased with it :o

Ami we get loads of bats where I live now and once had to rescue one from my shower (after I'd stepped on the poor thing!) in the summer I regularly have to chase them out of the house when we've had the back door wide open in the evening

I almost moved to Shropshire a few years ago.

Where did you grow up Ellie?