Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 [:D]Shag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Tit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Upupa epops(Hoopoe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Missel is the spelling I grew up with, and you will find it in the Secret Garden, where Dicken watches one with some tenderness, unless my memory (from 50 years ago) plays tricks.The RSPB is just being over-respectable and Latinate when faced with an Old English word and spelling. Missel is correct, Mistle isn't.It's getting dark now, I won't be able to have my curry alfresco today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Hoy! Neither the Shag or Hoopoe are songbirds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I agree with you about MIssel, Dick. I prefer the slightly different pronunciation it produces. I think The Secret Garden was Frances Hodgson-Burnett though, unless there's one hidden away in Dickens somewhere.hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I think you're fighting against a rising tide sticking to the Old English spelling - 8,820 references to Missel Thrush and 77,500 to Mistle Thrush on Yahoo search. It says so on the Internet so it must be true. [:D]Both equally valid as spellings, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 It wouldn't be the first time I've been in the minority and right.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Hoy! Neither the Shag or Hoopoe are songbirds![/quote]What - and hummingbird, kingfisher and jackdaw are? [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 [quote user="Hoddy"]It wouldn't be the first time I've been in the minority and right.Hoddy[/quote]You're in the minority and right. I'm in the majority and right. Neither is wrong. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Velvet scoter - no it can't sing. [Www]Or vanellus vanellus - slightly more melodious, the peewit, but no great shakes either. "Pee-wit" and that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 warbler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Good - a nice bunch of singers! X is going to be quite hard, I think .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Xenops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Yellowhammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Zitting Cisticola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 BluffOh alright - but it's just a warbler, really, and we've had loads of those.What's the next topic, Mr Zjob? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Another real one: Zimmer's Woodcreeper. Do you think it needs a frame to get up the trunk?Something to do with aeroplanes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 AOC wines of France. Something dear to my heart!!!Ajaccio.Anyway wot do you for nuffin, yer money back? Isa a burd wot goes cheep, cheep (gotta be better than a wife wot goes expensive, expensive!) init? Some of the more concerning people on this forum ask why I'm only posting on a serious fred and when I join in I get called a blufffffer? I suppose you can please some of the people some of the time and all of the people all of the time? [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Come on.... Blanquette de Lomoux. Much older than that over priced champoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Corbières Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Stop whingeing Jonzy. We could probably do a whole thread on 'B's, I'll go with Bergundy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Does my Corbières still count?Corbières again. Or Chateau de Chassilly. Who'd have thought that one day we'd be sitting here .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Celliers des Dauphins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 We're not doing Songbirds any more!D - there aren't any.E - Entre deux mers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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