Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Good grief, I’ve obviously been living in a non-English speaking environment for too long, , L4R and now PE, I’m totally lost ( in France, as the song goes )
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Siskins and Redpolls appealingly absent this Winter? (1 Viewer)
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KenM
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I mistyped (or predictive text?) the “L” instead of the R. :t:
stuartvine
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One, repeat one, Redwing on my patch this year so far (SW London). No Fieldfares, Siskin or Redpoll. Usually plenty of Redwings and a few of the others. The Rowan berries are all still there if there are any takers....
KenM
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I’ve had probably (the same) singleton Redwing for the year which I don’t see daily, a far cry from a c4 week period around 5 years ago during Jan/Feb, when they were present in the woods outback “en masse”. I couldn’t estimate the numbers involved, but suffice to say that you couldn’t look out the window for more than c30 seconds without seeing them in singles or groups flying past...must have been a short lived epicentre, in marked contrast to the present.
MJB
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That's the second** word this week from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary; even then it was archaic...
MJB
**The first word was 'imitatress', which BLI adopted for Cryptic Honeyeater...
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
MJB
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dantheman
Bah humbug
Remember Googlewhacks? (See wikipedia if not).
Doing a search and getting a unique return on BF is something akin to, and a source of some pride or something I guess. Unfortunately imatatress has now appeared on 4 different threads in total, so no longer counts. 'Appealingly' is still only on one (this one), and the even rarer 'appea*ingly' (where * = r) on none.
Only real words (archaic included) count though, so eg thithkinths etc don't.
:eat:
MJB
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Andy Adcock
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Reminds me of a competition between mates in the pub where we had to come up with as many names of footballers as we could, whose first and last initial was the same, my contribution, Wayne Wooney.
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I'm also in SW London, largely flatbound, but I'd normally expect to see a Redwing or two by now. Still none (and Fieldfares only turn up in really hard winters). As far as thrushes are concerned, I'm still walking on air from a magnificent Ring Ouzel photographed from my bedroom window on 24 October last year.
Many years since I saw a Siskin from my flat, and never a Redpoll in the 37 years I've been here.
Nutcracker
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I'd struggle to come up with the names of any footballers at all, whatever the initials :-O
Farnboro John
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dantheman
Bah humbug
Lineker, Gary Barlow, Pele, that Cantona bloke?
Nutcracker
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Looked them up; Gary Barlow seems to be a pop singer (something called 'take that'), the other three turn out to be ex-footballers . . . so you've not named any either 3
dantheman
Bah humbug
Was messing with you a tad
Mind you don't know Pele's initials, or any that fit Andy's game criteria ... or do I ... ?... Roy of the Rovers?
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dantheman
Bah humbug
Farnboro John
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Was messing with you a tad
... Roy of the Rovers?
He was Roy Race, so that would fit! :t:
Mind you I was brought up to believe It's Goals That Count....
John
Getting back on topic... I was up in some larch forest in Aberdeenshire today and there were loads of Siskins feeding on the cones, along with lots of other birds. This included two Bramblings. I didn't see any Redpolls though, which was a bit surprising.
