Life versus Birding - place your bets here (1 Viewer)

[Helenelizabeth2]

What kind of Life can there be without wide-open spaces?! :eek!:

I know.

 

[colonelboris]

Moving to a new continent is a good way of getting past 200...

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Moving to a new continent is a good way of getting past 200...

There's a good tip. I'm considering Ecuador from reading the Name a Bird thread.

p.s Sunny? Warm? Christmas? Confused yet?

 

[colonelboris]

There's a good tip. I'm considering Ecuador from reading the Name a Bird thread.

p.s Sunny? Warm? Christmas? Confused yet?

The Mrs was complaining this very minute abut the summer/Christmas thing. We are having a barbeque for dinner, though...
Saying that, I have developed the standard stinking Christmas cold, which put paid to a birding trip today.

 

[redeyedvideo]

Still over a week to go - you could at least get to 200!

2 Great White Egrets still at Pitsford Res and you don't even have to get out of the car if your agoraphobia has kicked in. :eek!:

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

The Mrs was complaining this very minute abut the summer/Christmas thing. We are having a barbeque for dinner, though...
Saying that, I have developed the standard stinking Christmas cold, which put paid to a birding trip today.

Bless.

*passes virtual Lemsip*

Merry, Christmas to you, Mrs and sprogs. Have a good one.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

2 Great White Egrets still at Pitsford Res and you don't even have to get out of the car if your agoraphobia has kicked in. :eek!:

All right then. I accept your challenge. Sometime before 1st January, I am going to make an attempt to bag those Egrets. Wish me luck.

 

[colonelboris]

All right then. I accept your challenge. Sometime before 1st January, I am going to make an attempt to bag those Egrets. Wish me luck.

Bet they're not as tame as this one:

http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=1679105&postcount=64

Good luck!

 

[Peter C.]

There's a good tip. I'm considering Ecuador from reading the Name a Bird thread.

A fine idea! Get ready to do with less oxygen though....

p.s Sunny? Warm? Christmas? Confused yet?

Well, certainly by the 'sunny' part .... unheard of .... :storm:

 

[etudiant]

Merry Christmas to all!
Hope Santa brought a good addition to the list.
How close are we to 250 now?

 

[redeyedvideo]

All right then. I accept your challenge. Sometime before 1st January, I am going to make an attempt to bag those Egrets. Wish me luck.

If the sky is blue I may be on the causeway myself, I'll look out for the pink scope. Good luck, still there Christmas Day apparently. :t:

p.s. I'll have a Canon camera slung round my neck and a copy of last Tuesday's Daily Telegraph under my left arm.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

If the sky is blue I may be on the causeway myself, I'll look out for the pink scope. Good luck, still there Christmas Day apparently. :t:

p.s. I'll have a Canon camera slung round my neck and a copy of last Tuesday's Daily Telegraph under my left arm.

Why last Tuesday's?

 

[redeyedvideo]

Why last Tuesday's?

Because it's lighter than Birds of the Western Palearctic volume 1 & it doesn't have any colour supplements, no other significance.

A couple of uncropped record shots taken from the car today...:t:

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Even I managed to see it today .

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Because it's lighter than Birds of the Western Palearctic volume 1 & it doesn't have any colour supplements, no other significance.

A couple of uncropped record shots taken from the car today...:t:

I'm still up North and back at work on Tuesday so New Year's Eve is looking like the only possible day. Will you blighters all back off and leave it alone in the meantime so you don't scare it away.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

If the sky is blue I may be on the causeway myself, I'll look out for the pink scope. Good luck, still there Christmas Day apparently. :t:

p.s. I'll have a Canon camera slung round my neck and a copy of last Tuesday's Daily Telegraph under my left arm.

The pink scope is now the possession of a thieving scroat who broke into my car in Scotland last May. Or in the possession of someone he sold it to.

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

Merry Christmas to all!
Hope Santa brought a good addition to the list.
How close are we to 250 now?

Nowhere near. See posts above. Watch this space to see if I even make the 200.

Merry Christmas.

 

[redeyedvideo]

Even I managed to see it today .

Sorry I missed you today Andrew, just remind me how far you travelled to see it. (ignoring the fact that you've visited family and friends for a minute )

I'm still up North and back at work on Tuesday so New Year's Eve is looking like the only possible day. Will you blighters all back off and leave it alone in the meantime so you don't scare it away.

Yeh, sorry, I did get a bit close. As you can see I managed to flush it in the second pic. :-O

The pink scope is now the possession of a thieving scroat who broke into my car in Scotland last May. Or in the possession of someone he sold it to.

B*stard. :C How do you know it was a he?

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

B*stard. :C How do you know it was a he?

Classic bit of gender stereotyping but with a fairly high probability of being correct.

 

[redeyedvideo]

Classic bit of gender stereotyping but with a fairly high probability of being correct.

True, if I ever come across a chav sporting a pink 'scope I'll approach him gently and enquire upon how he came to be the owner of such a manly piece of optical equipment.

Apologies for making light of what would have been a horrible experience.