Thank you to you all.
Colleen, yes I have further Hoopoes up my sleeve. More later!
User, "attitude" I am learning from you! :cat: If you can avoid portraying a bird as a bird? but give it its individuality? As a personality, an individual, in its own right? That is something to be explored! And, something, through this thread, I hope to persue. Etymology. Behaviour. Quirks, and "individual traits." Interesting in the extreme...:cat:
Nick, you're right about "Les Falcinelles!" My partner bringeth back the painting today. She was in the actual park you spoke of" Oh dear! Now I'm in big trouble! Merci, mon ami!! :-C
She got loads of Monk Parakeets nesting in the Date-Palms there. So, I should be okay!
Bagged a singing male Serin on a vineyard tour, and was swamped by Red Kites on the M4 to London. So, I might get away with this!
Neil, thanx 4 the PM. Will reply.
Woody, Europe my friend! The further South the better! Bird to see before you go from this realm! Would
love to see
your sketches when you do!
Andrew, I bagged one in the UK. Chew Valley Lake, Herriot's Pool, North Somerset, UK. Was scanning with 'scope across the pool for distant ducks. This "giant butterfly" registered in my "vision field" as it swooped across the water. To eventually alight under some trees on the far side.
A local "patch expert" turned up, and I broke the news. I had to lead him to the exact place where it had dropped. Despite searching. No result.
(Hoopoes can disappear without trace, despite their gaudy coloration!)
I sensed that I was not being believed.
We got back to where I was originally.
His eyes said
"stringer".
Then 2 lads approached us, and said,
"Did you see it?"
He said,
"See what?"
They said,
"While you two were talking a Hoopoe flew over the reed-bed behind you..."
They seemed quite exicited.
Ken, you simply must come to Europe!
Tim, do i really
have to re-visit a million Lappys? :-O
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