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Television Ticks? (1 Viewer)
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Brian Stone
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A great one last night on Midsomer Murders. A chap with a shotgun out shooting in a lightly wooded area when his dog puts up a noisy pheasant. Bang! Bang! and the bird comes tumbling out of the sky and lands... as a Red-legged Partridge. :h?:
erik
cheesehead
What annoyed me is a thing i once mentioned before long ago somewhere here on BF:
We have this commercial in the netherlands of a vacation park (Centerparks) where a guy in a boat is rowing around with a huge photocamera. His name appears p.e.: Tim Jones, paparazzi photographer...but not at the moment..., and then you see him watching a Bullfinch in a tree. At the same moment you see the beak of the Bullfinch go open and what do you hear? The perfect riddle of a chaffinch! That doesn't make sense!
And it was great to watch this kids show this afternoon, which is like an adventure series in dutch, and it was filmed in the Grand Canyon. At the moment the crooks appeared, i saw this little lizard run over the rocks, couldn't identify it but it was nice to see!
And there is this other hilarious story of this program about hunting. They were interviewing a guy who hunted for hares to keep the population in balance. They were standing in the field and this guy says in the camera: No hare escapes from my attention! In the meanwhile you see this hare running behind him from the right side of the screen to the left! HILARIOUS!
We have this commercial in the netherlands of a vacation park (Centerparks) where a guy in a boat is rowing around with a huge photocamera. His name appears p.e.: Tim Jones, paparazzi photographer...but not at the moment..., and then you see him watching a Bullfinch in a tree. At the same moment you see the beak of the Bullfinch go open and what do you hear? The perfect riddle of a chaffinch! That doesn't make sense!
And it was great to watch this kids show this afternoon, which is like an adventure series in dutch, and it was filmed in the Grand Canyon. At the moment the crooks appeared, i saw this little lizard run over the rocks, couldn't identify it but it was nice to see!
And there is this other hilarious story of this program about hunting. They were interviewing a guy who hunted for hares to keep the population in balance. They were standing in the field and this guy says in the camera: No hare escapes from my attention! In the meanwhile you see this hare running behind him from the right side of the screen to the left! HILARIOUS!
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Tom
erik said:
So funny!!
That reminded me of a commercial thats on tv over here in England. Think its for some beer. Anyway this guy, kneels down beside a lake, in Australia i think, talking of the animals that come to drink there. All of a sudden, this pelican takes the guys head off with a swipe of its beak. Then all you hear is the guy doing the voice-over say, in an Australian accent: "im no expert, but thats gotta sting!"
I thought it was hilarious............. :'D
Slightly away from the TV tick theme, unless you want to count the pelican.....
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Quacker
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tracker said:So funny!!
That reminded me of a commercial thats on tv over here in England. Think its for some beer. Anyway this guy, kneels down beside a lake, in Australia i think, talking of the animals that come to drink there. All of a sudden, this pelican takes the guys head off with a swipe of its beak. Then all you hear is the guy doing the voice-over say, in an Australian accent: "im no expert, but thats gotta sting!"
I thought it was hilarious............. :'D
Slightly away from the TV tick theme, unless you want to count the pelican.....
tracker
Yep! - that was my first Pelican as well
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
An interesting concept,Tracker,if anyone had said that birds seen on the TV counted as towards ones which one had seen,I would have said that they did not count,but I can now see the purpose behind this.One ID's the birds one sees /hears on the TV,is that correct.Due to this Forum my TV watching is somewhat limited!!!,but I shall now view with a different interest.
Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
Television ticks? I've heard it all now! :-O
Birds seen on tv shouldn't count. Ok, for fun maybe, but not seriously...
Birds seen on tv shouldn't count. Ok, for fun maybe, but not seriously...
Nightranger
Senior Moment
Faith said:
They don't...LOL. Nevertheless, my flatmates and I used to play this game at uni...and I always tell everyone the social life at Bangor is good???
Michael Frankis
conehead
What's "social life"?Ian Peters said:
Michael
(also ex-Bangor)
Nightranger
Senior Moment
Michael Frankis said:
Mountains on one side, sea on the other and a bit in between too. I got into some of the pub life in Bangor to add to the SU stuff. The birding was the biggest distraction though (hence the 2ii...LOL) and I am glad I never took up any of the other SU clubs when I was there.
