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Grousemore

Senior Member

• Jul 17, 2004

• #221

Sounds a good day nonetheless Larry...saw my one and only Western Kingbird in Florida,where they're certainly not common.
Hope to add to my BF List next week down in Devon with a few indigenous reprobates!

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jul 17, 2004

• #222

"phalarope" is highly migratory. The trouble is, there is no set pattern to her migrations. She may go any of the four directions at any given time of the year. So the chances of being able to "tick" this rather elusive species are well, chancy! She may be on Attu or then again possibly in South Africa, perhaps you could catch this species in Central America. I guess she is in the "cosmopolitan" genre.

I guess maybe I will have to try for a "tero"!

 

pduxon

Quacked up Member

• Jul 17, 2004

• #223

Just discovered that Deboo and I dipped each other today!!

 

deboo

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• Jul 17, 2004

• #224

Yards from a Duxon!...looking at the same LRP!!

Gutted Dave.

 

pduxon

Quacked up Member

• Jul 17, 2004

• #225

Personally I reckon the LRP was probably better looking than both of us!! Well definitely me!!

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jul 20, 2004

• #226

One more "tick" that I had forgotten about, Steve Kinder. That makes four on my list now.

 

ashrich

Registered , should be certified .......

• Jul 20, 2004

• #227

Hi everyone , got my very first BF tick today ...........Helenol , a very pleasant experience it was too !! . Nice to put a face to name .

Ashley.

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Jul 20, 2004

• #228

ashrich said:

Hi everyone , got my very first BF tick today ...........Helenol , a very pleasant experience it was too !! . Nice to put a face to name .

Ashley.

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Thanks for that Ashley! Don't forget Marlow gravel pits.

Another tick for me: Ashrich.

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jul 21, 2004

• #229

I must be getting old! I just remembered another BF Member who I can add to my list. Ted Vawter, he was in Saint Joseph around Christmas time and helped out with the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) for our area. So I am up to FIVE.

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #230

On 7 at the mo. Hope to add to that this weekend.

 

Andrew

wibble wibble

• Jul 21, 2004

• #231

helenol said:

On 7 at the mo. Hope to add to that this weekend.

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Got a great idea for Devon Bash! We all wear BF caps and play hide and seek. That way no one can accuse us of getting our ticks too easily!

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #232

I don't own a BF cap!

 

Andrew

wibble wibble

• Jul 21, 2004

• #233

helenol said:

I don't own a BF cap!

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Fieldcraft will have to come into it then. My tactics will be to watch for birders asking people where the nearest computer is!

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2004

• #234

Andrew said:

Fieldcraft will have to come into it then. My tactics will be to watch for birders asking people where the nearest computer is!

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Yeah, that'll be me. I'll bring the laptop.

 

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Bluetail

Senior Moment

• Jul 21, 2004

• #235

I'll just ask everyone how big their list is. If they give a number under 20, Bob's your uncle.

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jul 22, 2004

• #236

Jason,

"Bob's your uncle", is that some sort of British expression that we on this side of the pond would not have an inkling about?

 

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Bluetail

Senior Moment

• Jul 22, 2004

• #237

Hi Larry. Yes, it's a British expression meaning, roughly, QED. Hang on, that's a Latin one... Well... maybe you could substitute "sorted"!

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Jul 22, 2004

• #238

Bluetail said:

I'll just ask everyone how big their list is. If they give a number under 20, Bob's your uncle.

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huh? That's gone over my head...

 

Larry Lade

Moderator

• Jul 22, 2004

• #239

Hi Jason,

Your last post did not help me a great deal in trying to get your meaning.

But, Q.E.D., quod erat demonstrandum, which was [is] to be shown

Maybe if one's BF List is "over" 20, then "Bob's your uncle"!

"sorted" ??

 

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Andrew

wibble wibble

• Jul 22, 2004

• #240

The Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms' definition is . . .

and Bob's your Uncle! Now you have what you want. When the young Balfour was given a ministerial post by his uncle, Lord Robert Salisbury, the prime minister, member's of the opposition said "Bob's your uncle'. Meaning with such an uncle he could have whatever he wanted.

 

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