According to wiki, it's a parliament or stare of owls ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
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According to wiki, it's a parliament or stare of owls ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
yes I've heard of a parliment before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
What about a collection of wives.....................what's that a GLARE:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
A complaint of wives?Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
a nagging....:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
an ear ache.....;):D
a blessing....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
he says to get his self out of some serious trouble
Nice recovery mate, mine's in bed, so how about a snore:DQuote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Watching the Bats now.
it's a CHARM of Goldfinches:)Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Collective noun for fellrunners? Any suggestions?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
A Forum of fellrunners:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
I first though of a stench of fellrunners:eek: but thought better of posting that.:rolleyes::pQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
That stinks:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
Suppose it should be a stench of smokers.:rolleyes:
Yeah, and a sarcasm of ex-smokers:p:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
I know! I used to hate ex-smokers when I was a smoker.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
[QUOTE=wharfeego;230505]If tha leaves them greenflies too long then tha'll end up wi' a bare bush;)
:eek::eek::eek:
A day old foal in a field next to Low Moor Cricket Club, Bradford, while watching Mini Merry play cricket, had very wobbly legs, maybe he'd just finished a foal race:D
certainly not a CHARM!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
Videoed a lovely little vixen gettin' 'er tits sucked the other evenin';)
Ok...I filmed a female fox bein' suckled by 5 cubs...is that more suitable?:D
We once had quite a lengthy thread on this subject.
Lots of rain this morning, Couldn't see any wild life!
Collective nouns for fellrunners.Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
Wasp nest.........bastards........fastest I've run this year........
...and again today. I ended up having to jump over it. <shudder>.Quote:
Originally Posted by Feet in the Cowclaps
I'll be walking on burning coals in bare feet next week. ;)
Horse-flys today......must have sent about 50 of them back to hell, from where they came.
Well not exactly wildlife I know but I saw some Alpacas in a field just below Ringinglow today. They were all wrong - like sheep from outer space.
two stoats (or possibly weasels :confused: ) on Black Hill (near Disley)
more of those freakin heather flies
and last week I saw some fish (big 'uns - tench? :confused: ) in the Bridgewater Canal near Runcorn :eek:
Bees, Nothing unusual there you might think but a local farm has taken on about 20 hives. Lots of nice heather flowering at the moment with a nice bit of road in between the two.
I had to run down said road, 300m of which i had to keep my mouth shut(not easy):o they were bouncing off my head, arm, legs etc the air was thick with them. a bit disturbing really.
Oh and the twitch continues nearby. A peregrin I think?
A Tawny Owl in the woods while out running and a Little Owl sat on a wall on the way back home :cool:
Saw some pigeons in Preston today.:rolleyes:
A huge tick, well embedded in my belly!!
Failed to remove it cleanly, so it was out with the scalpel blade to dig out the rest:eek::eek:
Saw a swallow today. Hope he gets home okay! :cool:
Still plenty of House Martins about DT. The odd stray Swallow will 'ave company on their mammoth flight back to Africa.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I was gutted when we had some horrible wet weather in mid-late July and I missed the Swifts having a last burn up before they nipped off. Good spot outside the Fleece normally to see and hear them screaming about ;):cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by wharfeego
I was pretty gutted to miss the swifts leaving too. After coming back from Scotland, I was just aware of their absence...saw a swallow at Christmas last year in Penzance!
Today's wildlife encounter: hundreds and hundreds of mallards on a small fishpond. It was really odd but all was revealed when a bunch of tweedy types with guns came off the hills with trailers full of dead pheasants. I guess the mallards were hiding out of their way.
New series of Autumwatch starting later this evening, BBC2 ;)
Thanks fo' remindin' DT...9pm BBC2:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Don't swallows live here? Africa's just the holiday home?
a peregrine i think, very early this morning 7.30am. very low to ground as it was so windy today but half a big again as a kestrel and a bit paler with more swept back wings. This would be good news but a peregrine was found dead last week on Howden edge. Poisoned??
Intetesting point. I tend to think of the swallows as 'our's' and that they just go away to miss the winter, whereas swifts are visitors who come for our summer. Sadly swifts don't arrive until May and are usually gone by early August :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse