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Birds and burning hair
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Bird list for today: sparrow, starling, robin, magpie, blackbird, great tit, avocet, shellduck, teal, curlew.
I'm sure he'd have seen many more and identified the numerous gulls that I didn't know what they were, but I'm proud I managed the last four on the list at all.
Judith's technique for identifing birds:
It's like the one on the RSPB logo so it must be an avocet.
I've been on Brownsea Island often enough to manage shelduck - they turn up often enough for even a klutz like me to identify them and they're big and colourful which always helps.
Teal - guessed wildly at teal and was very pleased when the lady next to me in the bird hide identified it as such without me telling her my guess.
Curlew - looked it up on the chart behind me. Just kept looking until I found the right shape of bill (long and slightly curved) and was relieved when the plumage also matched.
I was out rhododendron clearing, as is my occasional wont on a Sunday. We had some good bonfires going and it has now conclusively been proven that I cannot distinguish the smell of burning hair from that of burning rhodendron.
Even when the hair in question is my own...
I was quite surprised when people told me a I had a burnt patch! It felt odd when I ran my fingers through it, still does, but I neither felt, nor smelt a thing. It didn't burn the scalp, I hasten to add, and the hair will suffer no long term harm.
temeres...Bird list for today: sparrow, starling, robin, magpie, blackbird, great tit, avocet, shellduck, teal, curlew.
I'm sure he'd have seen many more and identified the numerous gulls that I didn't know what they were, but I'm proud I managed the last four on the list at all.
Judith's technique for identifing birds:
It's like the one on the RSPB logo so it must be an avocet.
I've been on Brownsea Island often enough to manage shelduck - they turn up often enough for even a klutz like me to identify them and they're big and colourful which always helps.
Teal - guessed wildly at teal and was very pleased when the lady next to me in the bird hide identified it as such without me telling her my guess.
Curlew - looked it up on the chart behind me. Just kept looking until I found the right shape of bill (long and slightly curved) and was relieved when the plumage also matched.
I was out rhododendron clearing, as is my occasional wont on a Sunday. We had some good bonfires going and it has now conclusively been proven that I cannot distinguish the smell of burning hair from that of burning rhodendron.
Even when the hair in question is my own...
I was quite surprised when people told me a I had a burnt patch! It felt odd when I ran my fingers through it, still does, but I neither felt, nor smelt a thing. It didn't burn the scalp, I hasten to add, and the hair will suffer no long term harm.
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How did you know the Curlew wasn't a Whimbrel? I'd be surprised if it was, since Whimbrel shouldn't be appearing for at least another three months, but I have had one in mid-winter.
I had to make do with a mere 35 species today, none of them terribly interesting. Sparrowhawk and Kittiwake were the best two.
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There wasn't one avocet, there where 600+ (quite a small flock, a few weeks ago it was over 1400) they are the commonest bird on the lagoon at this time of year.
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