CRYPTIC plumage 2 (1 Viewer)

[Kits]

8. Spotted nutcracker

 

[Kits]

Did you ask for it to be closed? It's not your thread to decide - it's part of the community once it's going.


That's not the right way to do it ... if you wanted the other thread to end I guess it would be better to combine the two if anything.


Essentially threads very rarely if ever get locked, or deleted.

Merging them would have been a good idea.

 

[Deb Burhinus]

8. Spotted nutcracker

:clap: Well done Kits - very fast!

 

[Kits]

I’m still struggling with the nightingale!

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Thrush Nightingale

 

[Kits]

I wondered about that but couldn't see the tea connection. Now I've got it!

 

[Essex Tern]

P/N: Did that bird really come running round that hill wearing a waistcoat!?

....OK further clue to an element of the the original clue: Ed Sheeran wrote a song about this.

And a totally different clue to the same bird:

P/N: Testing times for the young fisherman, especially having broken down last week.

I will add (9) :t:

 

[dantheman]

Post #26

P1 -

:cat:

Surely not a White-eared Catbird 3

It's a WP bird (see post #26), but give yourself a :clap: for sure for getting another one to fit*

Anyway, still to solve (9 letters). You'll be kicking yourselves I'm sure when you get it!


*(almost - the word 'bird' wasn't fulfilled?)

 

[Kits]

9. Eastern wood peewee?

 

[Kits]

11. Spanish sparrow

 

[Essex Tern]

P1 -

:cat:

Would that be Kittiwake :t:

 

[dantheman]

Would that be Kittiwake :t:

Spot on.

I was wondering if Kits was going to get it ...

 

[Kits]

7. Demoiselle crane



Well done on kittiwake. Shame on me!

 

[Essex Tern]

7. Demoiselle crane

Well done on kittiwake. Shame on me!

Just suddenly came to me!

....you seem to be doing well with the others though!!

Wondering if Jackdaw is 10.

 

[Kits]

I wondered about Jackdaw but it seemed too easy compared with all the others which have made my brain hurt!

 

[Deb Burhinus]

So answers so far:

Well done Kits :clap:

8. Spotted Nutcracker
6. Nightingale ( with Welsh Peregrine, Thrush Nightingale)
7. Demoiselle Crane (I think Dan got that one too)
9. Was actually Italian Sparrow but will give you ‘Spanish’ (as my ability to count letters has proven to be sporadic and therefore unreliable )


Well done Essex Tern who got the Titanic reference :clap:
10. Jackdaw

So only ET’s clue to go (which Dan seems to know but won’t say!?)

 

[Deb Burhinus]

So some more for this evening (ET it would help if you could post your species with all the clues again thanks)

Taking the region from the map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palearctic_realm#/media/File:Wallace03.jpg

Cryptic clues as follows:


12. WP. Shout and exclaim with pain at classic horror (12)

13. N. Minority voting trend leading to conflict before sounding unclear. (9,7)

14. N. On Day of normandy landings, Noah’s boat observed picking up what sounds like discarded rubbish at half the cost. (4-4, 5)

15. WP A 1001 night story plus last edition, for pirate of the sea . (4-6, 4)

 

[Essex Tern]

Certainly.....

P/N: Did that bird really come running round that [highlight]hill[/highlight] wearing a [highlight]waistcoat[/highlight]!? (9)
....further hint to an element of the the clue: Ed Sheeran wrote a song about this.

And a totally different clue to the same bird:

P/N: Testing times for the young fisherman, especially having broken down last week (9)

 

[SimonLS]

14. N. On Day of normandy landings, Noah’s boat observed picking up what sounds like discarded rubbish at half the cost. (4-4, 5)

Dark-eyed Junco

 

[SimonLS]

Here's another:

A/N - Magazine's gone walkabout (9, 7)