Attenborough - Go Tell It To The Birds
w/e 08 April 2012
All this week's pictures were taken
with a Kodak DX6490
News reports of record numbers of heron's nests drew us to Attenborough
Nature Reserve recently and that is where we saw many other birds
too. "Go tell it it to the birds" is a phrase that
is used when someone says something that is not credible or is
a lie but have you ever wondered what birds are saying with all
their chirping, cheeping and squawking. I suppose in this technological
age I should also have included tweeting in that too but in the
following selection I have captioned the pictures with a few
phrases that might be overheard if we understood bird language.
Whether they are credible or not is a matter of opinion so you
might like to come up with a few of your own too.
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"Just when you want to get a bit of shut eye, all these
people come wandering by twittering on about herons! Don't they
know it's siesta time?"
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"OK so what if you are an Egyptian Goose with different
coloured feathers and pink legs, I bet you can't bend your neck
like this!"
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"If I stand still long enough and don't move, they'll probably
think I'm a cardboard cutout, go away and leave me in peace to
do a spot of fishing."
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"Go on Peter, go on Paul fly away quickly, I'm right behind
you and I'm not posing for any more photographers today."
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"Who says you need more than one for synchronised swimming?
I'm managing quite well on my own thank you very much."
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"Shush! If we stay quiet in these reeds they'll never know
we're here despite those enormous lenses. And why on earth do
they call that a hide when they stick it on stilts for everyone
to see?"
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"I don't know! We fly all the way out to these islands and
find a remote sand bank and the paparazzi are still hounding
us."
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"Form a line guys, with all these visitors, there'll be
plenty of titbits for all of us."
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"Now why don't you just quack off and leave us alone? You
can see she's only got eyes for me."
And with that I think we'd better leave all the birds in peace.
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