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Re: Blue Rockthrushes

To: michael <>
Subject: Re: Blue Rockthrushes
From: Philip M Hansbro <>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 09:36:59 +0000 (GMT)
As Russell says this must be an escape. They can't fly more than 100 yards
and it's not even on the British list!!
Cheers
Phil.

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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, michael wrote:

> My advice to Melburnians - in fact anyone who doesn't live near Noosa -
> is to save their cash and learn the difference between Blue Rockthrush
> and straight Rockthrush in Greece. 
> 
> I seem to remember seeing both there in the 1970s but maybe I was too
> affected by the daily diet of baclava for breakfast, a bit of retsina
> with rolls, cheese and salad (or rolls with honey) for lunch and the
> ouzo and black olives before dinner. Or perhaps by treading Oedipus'
> fatal crossroads or touching the Delphic oracle's stone.
> 
> Michael Norris
> 
> 


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