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My adventures in the (drum roll)... World of Birds! Clash! As nobody has been asking, I'll explain. George Bristow was a taxidermist at the hub of the Hastings Rarities scandal. From 1896 to 1939, hundreds of rare birds passed through his shop in St Leonards-on-Sea which he claimed were locally killed. They were later shown to be fraudulent. I'd like to think that at the back of his shop was a time machine linked to a freezer in another dimension, full of dead birds. You read it here first.
About Me
- Martin
- My name is Martin. I have one wife, Diane, who drinks wine. Between us, we have two children who eat money and are old enough to read now... so I have to say what joyful and fulfilling darlings they are! Don't be fooled, I'm much less boorish and opinionated than you'd think.
Other good stuff...
- Bitter Bonxie
- Blindfold-Bunny-Baby's Playhouse of Horror
- Bogbumper
- Boulmer Birder
- British Birds
- Camera Trap Codger
- Cork Birding
- Fraser's Birding Blog
- Green Withens Birding (sweary!)
- Ivorybills Live!
- Ken Hall Photography
- Menzie birding
- Not Quite Scilly - amusing
- Oe˜ygarden Birding
- Ornitholigical Idiocy
- Punkbirder
- Swampblog
- Toadsnatcher
- Tom McKinney (Parental Advisory)
- Whitby Birding
5 comments:
Are 25,473 British rare bird enthusiasts allowed to say "we told you so"? :-)
Hmmm, I guess I more or less said that on BF already.
Shame the BOU (again) went half-way & failed to accept Ichtyaetus... it just makes those Med Gulls even better!
Jan Hein
Are 25,473 British rare bird enthusiasts allowed to say "we told you so"? :-)
Absolutely not... they have to wait for the BB paper and see what a towering monument to erudition it represents. :-O
So why can't we have scientific names that are easy to remember (and spell) Chroicocephalus indeed.
A birding magazine over here suggested the common name "Sea Gull" for the American Herring Gull since every non-birder calls every gull a seagull. At least they'd be right some of the time.
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