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Stuka-ed at Lake Ginninderra [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Subject: Stuka-ed at Lake Ginninderra [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:00:14 +1000
The other day my three year old tomtit started pointing and blurted out
'Rainbow Bird' which I said was close enough as it was an Eastern Rosella.
She also calls Currawongs 'Big Black Magpies'.

It's amazing what they notice.  Walking back from the shops I was
nonchalantly whistling the Striated Pardalote call in response to the real
thing and the five year old told me to 'stop annoying the birds'!

Cheers, Alex.

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Sent: Friday, 28 September 2007 9:41 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Stuka-ed at Lake Ginninderra


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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