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    Birding parlance

    Following on from my earlier post about Sparrows being called Spogs where I grew up Sparrowhawks were of course called in the local dialect "spog'orks"
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    Birding parlance

    Cuddy is what we called Dunnocks when I was a lad back in West Yorks as well
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    Birding parlance

    Kevin, Steve Madge told me a very funny tale last week about a holiday he and some friends had in Ireland one Christmas many years ago. On Boxing day he heard a knock at the door and answered it to find some very drunken Irishmen announcing that they were the "wren boys" Steve misheard them and...
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    Birding parlance

    Birdman, Alan. Very interesting about the sparrows. Although I have lived in Cornwall for many years I grew up in Featherstone West Yorkshire and we called them "spoggies" By 'eck - accents eh!! Darrell
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