Helenelizabeth2
What?!?
Perhaps Jos could fly into Edinburgh and pick up a hire car?
Are you desperate enough for this bird to risk a bit of Lithuanian-style driving?
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Birds fae Torry (5 Viewers)
- Thread starter Andrew Whitehouse
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Perhaps Jos could fly into Edinburgh and pick up a hire car?
Are you desperate enough for this bird to risk a bit of Lithuanian-style driving?
edenwatcher
Well-known member
I was thinking of coming up for the king eider but clearly I need a change of plan ...
Rob
Rob
Still no sign in poor weather. It could still be worth the trip up though, as it'll be a serious blocker if refound.
turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
Absolutely, otherwise in years to come I'll be crying into my list, filled with regret for having missed the Torry Wren that everyone else got and now no longer exists. Dread the thought.
StuartReeves
Local rarity
Good job I'll be able to tick it from my armchair then. Much greener too.
Just to crush this before it gets out of hand, there is rumour that the record is actually stringy. So the story goes, somebody said 'rain' in a particular dialect and Mr Whitehouse, the so-called 'Professor of Listening' misheard it as 'Wren' and in his eagerness squinted through the rain (thus proving the case) and saw a small brown 'bird' moving through his field of view. Adding two and two together, our friend of high esteem clearly believed he had seen the bird he thought announced. Other observers report that this was in fact a mouse.
A statement issued on behalf of Mr Whitehouse expressed that the concerned party did not wish to comment directly, but that an investigation was being carried out and, if indeed a mistake had been made, there was never at any time a wish to deliberately mislead his loyal fans.
Ticket offices at airline companies up and down the country report long queues of disgruntled customers seeking refunds, whilst the Aberbeen Constabulary reports that it is monitoring twitcher crowds in the fae Torry area, adding that riot police are on stand by and ready to deploy if a certain university employee further flames the situation.
A statement issued on behalf of Mr Whitehouse expressed that the concerned party did not wish to comment directly, but that an investigation was being carried out and, if indeed a mistake had been made, there was never at any time a wish to deliberately mislead his loyal fans.
Ticket offices at airline companies up and down the country report long queues of disgruntled customers seeking refunds, whilst the Aberbeen Constabulary reports that it is monitoring twitcher crowds in the fae Torry area, adding that riot police are on stand by and ready to deploy if a certain university employee further flames the situation.
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I quite like this idea of being 'Professor of Listening', as opposed to Helen, who's 'Professor of Listing'. Speaking of which, it's still on my list
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Helenelizabeth2
What?!?
turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
This post made the last few days of January a little more bearable.
Indeed, he can be quite funny when he's not just irritating can't he?
As for Dr W though, sunk to new depths it seems!
Helenelizabeth2
What?!?
Indeed. And no evidence of much actual birding recently either. Clearly his patchwork halo is slipping.
Indeed. And no evidence of much actual birding recently either. Clearly his patchwork halo is slipping.
Hey at least I once had one, unlike some I could think of
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edenwatcher
Well-known member
Ha, no armchair tick for Stuart then. Unless he is claiming some new species - the armchair greenish wren.
Rob
Rob
G Anderson
Registered User
So far, the Wren in question is by a single observer, without proper documentation this Wren can only , at best, be considerered a possible Wren.
Helenelizabeth2
What?!?
Good point. Do we know anything about this man's field experience of Wrens?
I'd suggest it's rather greater than your recent field experience of Dunnocks
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turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
I'd suggest it's rather greater than your recent field experience of Dunnocks
However, that doesn't amount to much really, does it?
(Helen
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However, that doesn't amount to much really, does it?
(Helen
Well, technically, 'greater than' is imprecise, just suggesting that it is more than not very much. It doesn't specify how much more. Technically.
turkish van
Number 1 celebrity badger
Well exactly, technically it could mean you have not much field experience. Are you capable of a reliable ID in less than ideal conditions?
Defending a record already discredited does little to raise one's battered reputation. It was a mouse, we all know it was a mouse, and resorting to attacking the honourable Helen's Dunnocks will still not change the fact that it was a mouse.
So, I vote for a record committee to be be formed. Nominations by PM please.
