All just a bit of light, good hearted fun!
I especially liked the line about all birders being "self-obsessed maniacs".
Cheers,
John Tongue,
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 06/03/2012, at 3:07 PM, Dave Torr wrote:
> The list of North American birds they were going through when trying to
> identify something from the hide was strange. Also one assumes a Hoopooe
> would turn up in summer, yet it was two days from the end of the annual
> twitching competition so presumably late Dec!
>
> On 6 March 2012 15:03, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>
>> I was amused by the "Blue-crested Hoopoe", on Midsomer murders, as if just
>> Hoopoe is not enough. I think someone had a spare stuffed Hoopoe specimen
>> and thought what can we do with this, let's write an episode of Midsomer
>> Murders. Did you also notice that an Eastern Rosella was also shown in some
>> stage of being prepared? How would that have got there?
>>
>> It made bird people look pretty dopey. Though some of us get a bit
>> excitable
>> too.
>>
>> I agree about the awful sound effects used in these TV shows. They are so
>> tedious, predictable and contrived........ As Wendy said "A little less of
>> the obligatory ?fox? calls and ?magpie? calls that seem to continuously
>> punctuate the show representing 'night' = ?fox? and 'day' scenes Eurasian
>> Magpie chacker, chacker call." Also it seems that always and only Ravens or
>> maybe Rooks exist whenever a cemetery is in the story.
>>
>> Philip
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