John,
I very much enjoy your smart-alec penchants, and tales of brats getting
out and appreciating our avian friends, agro or not.
So don't sober up - keep us entertained.
Jim
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From: John Layton
Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2007 8:59 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Stuka-ed at Lake Ginninderra
Three curious members have asked what we meant by "Stuka-ed" in our post
about our trip to Lake Ginninderra. And one of the curious trio said agro
magro was a a silly thing to say. Sorry, we have a penchant for playing
smart-alec with words.
A Stuka was a World War II German dive-bomber. Stuka being a common
abbreviation of the German word for dive-bomber viz: Sturzkampffugzeng. I
wonder what the reaction would have been if we'd written, "The lady jogger
and her German Shepherd were Sturzkampffugzeng-ed by an agro magro"? Agro
magro is Bratese (Brats are daughters) for aggressive magpie. So, we hope
that's all cleared up. We promise to be very sober-sided and
ornithologically correct in future. Until next time.
To answer another question, the White-bellied Sea-Eagle we saw appeared to
be a mature bird rather than an immature.
John & Sami Layton
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