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[@mjfanatic777]

@Agonum do you like bird-watching? You seem to know a good deal about birds

 

[zinniabooklover]

Yes, they’re tiny,

They really are but, man, they fly fast.

 

[Agonum]

@Agonum do you like bird-watching? You seem to know a good deal about birds

My father is an avid birder. I am more into evertebrates, but have become more and more interested in birds.

 

[zinniabooklover]

My father is an avid birder. I am more into evertebrates, but have become more and more interested in birds.

I love birds and I love to watch them but I can't do the actual birding thing. I can't be bothered to try to distinguish all the little brown jobs from each other. Does my head in, lol.

 

[Agonum]

They really are but, man, they fly fast.

They are good swimmers, too!

 

[Agonum]

I love birds and I love to watch them but I can't do the actual birding thing. I can't be bothered to try to distinguish all the little brown jobs from each other. Does my head in, lol.

Keeping it casual certainly is an alternative.

 

[zinniabooklover]

They are good swimmers, too!

They are!!! Amazing to watch. Like a streak of blue lightning.

 

[Agonum]

I love birds and I love to watch them but I can't do the actual birding thing. I can't be bothered to try to distinguish all the little brown jobs from each other. Does my head in, lol.

Have you watched that movie “The Big Year”?

 

[zinniabooklover]

Keeping it casual certainly is an alternative.

Casual doesn't even begin to cover my style of, ahem, 'bird watching'. I fall into the Simon Barnes category:

 

[zinniabooklover]

Have you watched that movie “The Big Year”?

Never heard of it. Don't watch films.

 

[Agonum]

Casual doesn't even begin to cover my style of, ahem, 'bird watching'. I fall into the Simon Barnes category:

What is this now?

 

[Agonum]

Never heard of it. Don't watch films.

It’s pretty entertaining. American film, but almost only European birds.

Oh, I forgot you sold your tv in 1992!

Edit: Why exactly in 1992?

 

[zinniabooklover]

It’s pretty entertaining. American film, but almost only European birds.

I'll pass.

Oh, I forgot you sold your tv in 1992!

Nope. It was a rental. Went back to the rental shop.

Edit: Why exactly in 1992?

No reason. It was sat there being ignored. Full time job. 4 or 5 gigs every week. Very little interest in tv. Why bother?

 

[zinniabooklover]

What is this now?

Simon Barnes. British sports journalist and dedicated birder. Keen to encourage people to get into birding so he tries to demystify it.

 

[zinniabooklover]

oo! That has peaked my interest!

'Piqued' is the word you want here.

 

[Fuzball]

Kungsfiskare

Kungfiskare or in short "kung fu". Bird's #FBA

 

[zinniabooklover]

I thought it was murder of crows? Parliament of rooks? Etc.

And an unkindness of ravens.

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[zinniabooklover]

Kungfiskare or in short "kung fu". Bird's #FBA

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[Agonum]

And an unkindness of ravens.

I love those collective nouns. Unique to Britain, as far as I’ve understood.

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[zinniabooklover]

I love those collective nouns. Unique to Britain, as far as I’ve understood.

omigosh! I didn't know that.

 

[Agonum]

You are insane!

Courtesy of Country Life:

• A wake of buzzards
• A confusion of chiffchaffs
• A chattering of choughs
• A commotion of coots
• A murder of crows
• An asylum of cuckoos
• A curfew of curlews
• A trembling of finches
• A swatting of flycatchers
• A prayer of godwits
• A crown of kingfishers
• A parcel of linnets
• A cast of merlins
• A conspiracy of ravens
• A worm of robins
• A parliament of rooks
• An exultation of skylarks
• A murmuration of starlings
• A hermitage of thrushes
• A volery of wagtails
• A museum of waxwings
• A chime of wrens
• An orchestra of avocets
• A mural of buntings
• A water dance of grebes
• A booby of nuthatches
• A quilt of eiders
• A mischief of magpies
• An aerie of eagles
• A wisdom of owls
• A quarrel of sparrows

 

[zinniabooklover]

 

[Agonum]

Somewhat reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[zinniabooklover]

You are insane!

Courtesy of Country Life:

• A worm of robins
• A parliament of rooks
• An exultation of skylarks
• A murmuration of starlings
• A hermitage of thrushes
• A volery of wagtails
• A museum of waxwings
• A chime of wrens
• An orchestra of avocets
• A mural of buntings
• A water dance of grebes
• A booby of nuthatches
• A quilt of eiders
• A mischief of magpies
• An aerie of eagles
• A wisdom of owls
• A quarrel of sparrows

No, I know most of these. I just hadn't stopped to consider if it was just an English language thing. And I mean, English English, not American English but also, not realising other languages didn't have their equivalent.

P.S. my top fave is the skylarks.

 

[zinniabooklover]

Somewhat reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Is it? I dunno. I'm just posting random sh!t.

 

[@mjfanatic777]

'Piqued' is the word you want here.

ohh really? Thank you for the correction!