Reader Marella sent a “spot the. . .” photo and a nice link:
I subscribe to a Facebook page called “Catspotting“, where people post pictures of cats they’ve met on the streets. It is strictly prohibited to post pics of cats that you know well or—gasp—own. Recently there have been a few long distance snaps and now we have a “Where’s Wally” snap which I thought you might enjoy. I’ve never found a nightjar yet, and I can’t find this kitty either!
Find the cat in this picture. It may be the toughtest “spot” yet, but don’t cheat by going to the Catspotting page. I’ll give the answer in a few hours.
That was a trick one. I was looking in all the usual cat places.
Waiting with bated breath…
I think I see two little ear shadows – ummmm my guess – it’s sitting on the guy’s back, tucked up agianst the cap?
I think I see one peeking over the concrete balcony (or whatever), center left edge of the image.
Nope. That’s not the cat – not saying where it is now though; it’s obvious once you find it!
I think you might be right, Sharyn.
Even more difficult than finding Simonetta Sommaruga, the Swiss president, on the (unmodified) solidarity march picture…
If it’s a black cat, I think I got it.
in the car, behind the windscreen.
No… I was wrong, I checked.
Naah… In the doorway, partially hidden (orange head and black neckband showing) by the rear of the motorcycle, positioned behind the car.
To the right of the top of the shrub on the lower right. Tail in air??
Have they misspelled “car”?
I’m going to guess it’s peeking out from behind the pink wall, on the right.
Marella, you have a fan for I’ve seldom found a nightjar and so far not this kitteh, either. Thanks for telling us this. It makes the work fun and not so competitive. I’ll keep looking and try to avoid “the answer.” I can wait and look.
I’d never heard of the site to which you subscribe and am glad to know about it. Now, whether I visit it is another thing!
Cheers.
far right, midway down in the lattice. orange tabby.
The cat is on the far right underneath the awning, in shadow, climbing down the wall, head down orientation, apparently looking right at the camera.
The car isn’t a Jaguar is it?
I suspect you know much more about Spitfires than you do about cars… 😉
No way is that ever a Jag
All cars are beginning to look the same: like Jelly beans. Maybe even Jags?
No, it’s some undistinguished family saloon. If anyone can positively identify it as a Jag I’ll eat my hat.
I’d like to drive a saloon some day.
This is obviously one of those British-vs-American English things…
Oh! I thought perhaps your “sedan” had been auto-corrupted.
Ah. No. I think ‘saloon’ is the British equivalent of ‘sedan’.
Quite why I don’t know. One brings to mind ‘saloon’ carriages on British railways, which have all the seats in an open common space, this by contrast with a ‘compartment’ carriage which has separate 6 or 8-seat ‘compartments’. (I believe most US railroad cars were of the arrangement that would be called ‘saloon’ in England). Presumably the name got adopted by British cars at some point.
‘Sedan’ I don’t know, there is of course the French town after which, presumably, sedan chairs are named. But this doesn’t sound like a very auspicious precedent for a car.
Saloon=sedan?
My Indian yoga teacher once said that her husband never goes to the hair saloon…
‘Saloon = sedan?’
Yes I think they’re equivalent. Wikipedia tells me a sedan is an automobile of the conventional three-box shape. A saloon car is the same.
More recently many cars, in Europe/UK at least, have drifted into the hatchback shape like the one shown in the picture, in fact it’s almost universal now, and I think the term ‘saloon’ is still applied to them.
It does have connotations of ordinariness, which is why I wouldn’t apply it to higher-performance cars with, typically, lower height and more limited passenger room like most Jags.
Yep, saloon = sedan.
An old west bar or what we’d call a “sedan”? 😉
You get my initial confusion. 😉
Yes, I learned the word, “saloon” from watching Top Gear. I noticed that a Canadian paper used it too, which I found odd as I always said, “sedan”.
This is why cars are quite different from automobiles. Cars have bumpers, bonnets, open cars have hoods, boots, gearboxes and diffs, gear levers (if manual) and windscreens. Automobiles have fenders, hoods, convertibles have soft tops, trunks, transmissions and final drives(?), shifters, and windshields.
(Hope I got that right).
What is the British word for “payment?”
You learn something new every day…
Payment? Payment, I think.
Could be something else, depending on the context. Care to specify more precisely?
Aw, sorry, that didn’t work. Intended to be a joke about the monthly payments one makes on one’s car loan.
Instalment, possibly. Sorry I didn’t get the joke.
I’m stumped. I see nothing that resembles a kitteh. But then, I never can spot the nightjars either.
What’s that black thing in the doorway? I keep staring at it because it looks like it’s got pointed ears, but it can’t possibly be an actual cat.
Does it have to be a real cat or can it be a piece of pottery or something. If so, I would say it is in the doorway under the sign.
What country are we in?
Inexplicably, I saw it right away. Never with nightjars.
Are we allowed to say where? I haven’t read the comments yet.
I am starting to hallucinate…
I’ve missed the nightjar on finding this cat. I suspected the bushes but couldn’t see a cat there. There is an odd colour in the shadows but the it doesn’t look very cat like.
Spot the cat? Spot is generally the name of a d*g. So I will scan the pic for a dalmation .. ya can’t trick me!
Extreme left, half way down, a little black speck (the head) peeking over the edge of someone’s balcony wall.
Arrgh!
If you stare at this long enough you see cats everywhere. Not sure there’s enough resolution in photo to be sure. But I think in the shop window, orange cat on white shelf.