The English have a tradition of reporting on hearing the first cuckoo in Spring. No English Gentleman would report it if they have not heard it.
I am going to report on here that I will be the first to wear a Jarryd Hayne official 49`s red jumper with white 38 on it, this Spring! I have a secret connection in the US of A. Maybe on the samet day of hearing a cuckoo in in England. Beat that!!
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HKF you ridgy didge? It must be a genuine Hayne Red hue! With a white number. If you have, you have beaten me at the start! I will kick my American cousin in the bollocks over this. A real gentleman would not say that unless he had worn one.You are a real gentleman are you not? I will stick to cuckoos from here on.
LOLL Robbie im seriously starting to enjoy your blogs, im loving the cryptic slants and in depth thoughts, im a fan.
Snake you would be the only person on the site who does understand me.I accept that, because, if they did understand me, they would hang me from the nearest light pole.
Rob years ago i was involved in a tagging programme for a bird called the Channel billed Cuckoo, you would probably know them, visitors from PNG every year, classed as parasitic birds, they can actually mimic egg colour on their targeted parents, its not uncommon for the adoptive parents usually being magpies and Currawongs to starve to death trying to feed their new baby, amazing birds.
Carloeel: See my reply to Snake re the Cuckoo. I saw one this afternoon as I walked by a local pristine gully.He did not call but he was a Queensland Cuckoo with small blue markings on his shoulders.He was heading back to Queensland after flying South for the Winter with the Queensland swallows. They call him Kookooburra. He has a sort of a laugh as a call generally.
As for Mr Darcy, are you refering to the Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austin? I know you are a romantic at heart. I have not sent you more poems because I have resumed assignations with my Dark Lady of the Sonnets at the football.With no games at Pirtec, it has been many weeks since I have seen her. The wait was worthwhile. But the football terrible. With a new stadium we may be permanently separated. The path of true love never did run smooth according to some minor poet.
LOL Your on fire Rob, all bird watches are romantics at heart, i'll admit i have a few incredible Australian bird books and i tick off new species when im lucky enough to see one, have been involved i a few taging programmes and watching programmes, last one being with a group of powerful owls in Beecroft.
Ive been watching a little colony of Red whiskered Bull Bulls that visit my court yard, introduced to Sydney Botanic Gardens over 100 years ago, i think they released under 10 birds from England that originally came from China, and that small group decendants are still living today around Sydney harbour and has never really moved from here, we need to go bird watching together rob.
Snake: I envy you! I have always been nuts on birds. I am afraid that I am too old to go bird watching now but I would have enjoyed doing it some years ago. Down at the bottom of my street there is bush gully and I have been there over the years and spotted some interesting species. I saw, once only, a Rose Robin there. All grey with a pink breast--beautiful in the bush. In winter, every year, some very tiny birds arrive from somewhere and at about 3.30 to 4pm appear in one particular tree seemingly to feed on something, high up in the tree. They are perhaps the smallest birds I have seen. I don`t know what species they are but they have ruddy coloured breast with a slate- brown wings and body feathers. This year I went back at the same tree, at the same season, at the same time , and sure enough there they were! In spring they go somewhere but to turn up again --do I have to say it?--Next Year!
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