Some French Mysteries (1 Viewer)

[The Hairy Highlander]

Great Reed....is the sand piper Green then? Linnit, Purple Heron, Common Whitethroat, and Corn Bunting

 

[nickderry]

Great Reed....is the sand piper Green then? Linnit, Purple Heron, Common Whitethroat, and Corn Bunting

this is correct! :t:

 

[The Hairy Highlander]

Get in!! :-O:t:

 

[phil baber]

Grrrr!

 

[nickderry]

quiz time! and we have plenty of blurs in the heat haze!

 

[Andrew Rowlands]

Whinchat, Ortolan, Marsh Warbler, Wheatear and Wryneck?

 

[Phil Carter]

Wheatear, Linnet, Melodious Warbler, another Wheatear, Wreck.

Phil

 

[rosbifs]

I disaree with the second which I think is Linnet....

 

[rosbifs]

I have to think that the third is Icterine....

but apart from that I agree.....

 

[phil baber]

Whinchat, Linnet, Melodious Warbler, Wheatear and Wryneck.

 

[nickderry]

Whinchat, Linnet, Melodious Warbler, Wheatear and Wryneck.

Phil has got it!

We don't use the word Ortolan - that's a very sore point! as while I was walking round the fields where I took the linnet, there were three of the unspeakables that appeared where I'd taken the wheatear - would have been a lifer). :C

Icterine is a very rare species in my region, just one or two pairs hanging on in the North.

 

[phil baber]

It's a great shame you haven't seen this delightful bird. But, it is little wonder...

http://migration.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/france-and-ortolan-trapping/

 

[nickderry]

It's a great shame you haven't seen this delightful bird. But, it is little wonder...

http://migration.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/france-and-ortolan-trapping/

despicable practice, I've never understood this idea of 'local tolerance' - the law is the law across the entire country. But what do you expect when even Mitterand ate ortolans at his last presidential dinner. Got to say though, things are changing for the better in France - I meet so many newbies with binoculars when I go out, all potential pressure on the governement to actually put their laws into practice.

 

[The Hairy Highlander]

Phil has got it!

I agree with Phil, does that mean I get a point??

 

[nickderry]

I agree with Phil, does that mean I get a point??

If you like, which means you are the winner, with one point! As nobody else has any yet. 8-P

 

[Parker]

Hope you get to see the unspeakables soon Nick they are cracking little birds.

 

[The Hairy Highlander]

If you like, which means you are the winner

AT LAST!! My life is now complete!! B

 

[nickderry]

Just got back from dipping an ortolan in my town - I'm sure they have something against me.

Here are some quizzicals from yesterday.

 

[Jonny721]

1 - Skylark
2 - Pied Flycatcher
3 - Spotted Flycatcher
4 - Wood Sandpiper
5 - Garden Warbler

 

[phil baber]

Skylark, Collared Fly, Wryneck, Whimbrel, Garden Warbler. (In that order...)