Tony, I'm a birder, and I found it very funny!!
John Tongue,
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 06/03/2012, at 5:59 PM, Tony Russel wrote:
> Bet she's not a birder.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Dave Torr
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012 3:04 PM
> To: John Tongue
> Cc: Birding-Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] So whatever happened to "The Big Year"
>
> 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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