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Wotsit and Wingtip

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Subject: Wotsit and Wingtip
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 23:28:18 +0000

Veteran Wotsiters and Loch Ness students Con, Mark and Philip correctly inferred a cormorant.  In this case it was a Little Black.

 

Many of you will have noticed that my offered Wednesday wingtip (over cow paddocks, JWNR) belonged to a harrier, Swamp, male, pale variety. This lacked the contrasting dark tips of a Little Eagle.  It is also a more rangy bird.  To borrow, more or less, a line from the Australian carol ‘Christmas where the Gum Trees Grow’ –

 

Long wings the harr-ee-er has got,

Neat and chunky is what it’s not.

 

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