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Grousemore
Senior Member
Now you've got it!
Edward woodwood
Member
bowling in
moving off trail and into cover in order to trouser the rare - not incompatible with fieldcraft (see below) when practiced by a hardcore birder but guaranteed to raise the hackles of dudes and twitchers standing in the gallery and desparate to tick the boy
Fieldcraft - a now redundant method, especially shunned at twitches, involving use of cover, stealth and judgement to allow close approach to a bird. Best practised by those with experience and patience of stalking birds in forests and jungles
moving off trail and into cover in order to trouser the rare - not incompatible with fieldcraft (see below) when practiced by a hardcore birder but guaranteed to raise the hackles of dudes and twitchers standing in the gallery and desparate to tick the boy
Fieldcraft - a now redundant method, especially shunned at twitches, involving use of cover, stealth and judgement to allow close approach to a bird. Best practised by those with experience and patience of stalking birds in forests and jungles
weather
Pirate name: Poncy Henry Goodfellow
Poop - A small (usually Sparrow like) bird, that can't be identified, or won't allow you to ID it. A fellow birder and friend uses this term...
Tribe - A general expression describing the birding community especially when seen in a group...
Mike
Tribe - A general expression describing the birding community especially when seen in a group...
Mike
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Edward woodwood
Member
to boot (verb)
to flush vigourously - often employed when bowling in and fieldcraft have drawn a blank. Example I couldn't get any views of the Rail Babbler/Thrush/Pitta etc so I bowled in and eventually booted it.
booting is guaranteed to annoy other birders (who haven't seen it) though....
to flush vigourously - often employed when bowling in and fieldcraft have drawn a blank. Example I couldn't get any views of the Rail Babbler/Thrush/Pitta etc so I bowled in and eventually booted it.
booting is guaranteed to annoy other birders (who haven't seen it) though....
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Michael Frankis
conehead
:-O :clap:CJW said:
Don't think so, though! :egghead:
Michael
Edward woodwood
Member
nice one Chris
well spotted!
well spotted!
Michael Frankis
conehead
Poop - A small (or large) bird, carrying out target practice on human beings. Or the substance so applied.weather said:
:king:
nightheron28
Exterminate! Exterminate! Exxxtttteeeerrrrmmmiinat
Okay great thread!
So what would I be?
I try to bird whenever I can, preferring to bird alone, as groups are full of know-it-alls that love to show you how inferior you are (hehe bad attitude, maybe).
I am often after the next life bird, feeling that my time is very short and wanting to see as many birds as possible before I cease to be. So I chase rarities found by others. I have never found any extraordinary rare birds, but I have found "rare birds" Albeit regularly occuring rare birds, Although recently while in California I found what I thought was a pretty good find for the area a Male Calliope hummer, although it was unconfirmed by others which sucks, but 1 or 2 show up in the bay area quite a distance from their usual montain homes
I have birded since I was 8 and I am now 29, most of that experience was in N. California (states).
So what would I be?
I try to bird whenever I can, preferring to bird alone, as groups are full of know-it-alls that love to show you how inferior you are (hehe bad attitude, maybe).
I am often after the next life bird, feeling that my time is very short and wanting to see as many birds as possible before I cease to be. So I chase rarities found by others. I have never found any extraordinary rare birds, but I have found "rare birds" Albeit regularly occuring rare birds, Although recently while in California I found what I thought was a pretty good find for the area a Male Calliope hummer, although it was unconfirmed by others which sucks, but 1 or 2 show up in the bay area quite a distance from their usual montain homes
I have birded since I was 8 and I am now 29, most of that experience was in N. California (states).
David Bryant
Registered User
'flog' To scrutinise an area really carefully, as in 'I flogged the sueda thoroughly, but didn't find the Desert Warbler'
'Little Paxton' A tyro birder who scrounges lifts to / from twitches
'Little Paxton' A tyro birder who scrounges lifts to / from twitches
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
nightheron28 said:
I think you could start your own category of birder to fit your desription of yourself - how about 'Lone Wolf'?
Steve
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
'Blogging' = flying backwards and forwards rather than migrating; used in a sea-watching and vismig context. First used by regulars at Spurn Bird Observatory in the seventies (maybe).
edenwatcher
Well-known member
David Bryant said:
That sounds lifted from Not BB ...
Now how did it go?
Slapton - Barbour and green welly wearing upper class birder
Slapton Ley - Slapton's girlfriend ...
Rob
Edward woodwood
Member
yep, copyright alert - defo from Not BB
also Clumber Park - park hurriedly at a major twitch
Cantly Beet Factory - awful music played by the driver on an overnight twitch
etc etc
also Clumber Park - park hurriedly at a major twitch
Cantly Beet Factory - awful music played by the driver on an overnight twitch
etc etc
David Bryant
Registered User
Now is THAT where it came from??? People used to say it a lot in the Beach Cafe, especially about a kid called Adrian something or other! Naively, I assumed it was a 'Golley' original! LOL!
edenwatcher
Well-known member
Tim Allwood said:
Being a Cambridge-based publication it was actually Ely Beet Factory...
A few others
Burnham Overy - to drive very fast for a rarity
Hoy - the friendly greeting of a farmer finding you doing a breeding bird survey on his land.
Rutland - the low-lying patch of land at every major twitch from where you can only see others heads.
Anyway better stop, this thread seems to have been hijacked...
Rob
David Bryant
Registered User
edenwatcher said:
LOL! LOVE this 'hijack' concept! What we're looking at here is 'chain of consciousness' or word association football league of gentlemen prefer blondes have more fun boy three times a lady Amshurst's pheasant plucker's son of my father Christmas tree sparrow hawk wind cries Mary Queen of Scots pine tree top secret pass WORD
Edward woodwood
Member
porn star - (verb) to give excellent views.
this one currently has a small but growing userbase....
as in the Red and White Antpitta was quite elusive at first but ended up porn starring for five minutes.
this one currently has a small but growing userbase....
as in the Red and White Antpitta was quite elusive at first but ended up porn starring for five minutes.
