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So whatever happened to "The Big Year"

To: John Tongue <>
Subject: So whatever happened to "The Big Year"
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:34:08 +1100
Yes - for some reason my wife found that funny!

On 6 March 2012 15:32, John Tongue <> wrote:

> 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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