Irish birds - dull, boring and ugly?

Gran Hermano

Whilst orthonology is not the most interesting of topics, I had an unusual
chat over lunch today with a colleague of mine who is an avid bird-spotter.

This fellow is an avid twitcher and he uses up most of his annual leave
travelling the globe in pursuit of adding to the number of types he's spotted
and photographed. I asked him why he was not happy just keeping a casual
eye on the usual visitors to the bird-table he has in his garden and his
reasoning was that in comparison to the colourful and exotic birds overseas
the Irish varieties are all rather dull and similar. I suppose our crows and
magpies are no match in the beauty stakes when compared to the parrots
and suchlike one finds abroad in the tropics.

Should we not be grateful for what we have locally and avoid the lure of
the foreign and unusual. I'm interested in your thoughts fellow boardsies.

_feedback_

Think ya might have the wrong forum....

but it's true...

Irish birds - dull, boring and ugly.

Reminds me of YORE MA!!!

Gumbyman

I was in a pet shop at lunch and they were selling budgies for €20 and canaries for €25. Class! I'm going to build an aviary in my house and get 20 of each and let them fly all over the shop and breed and.......... actually I'm not going to bother. They were pretty though. I liked looking at them. I also spotted a gerbil and there is this really massive guy here at work with a little beard and whenever I see him now I think of the gerbil and imagine him as a talking gerbil and it is cracking me up!

event

this is getting very tiresome

Jesus Wept

same threads on here every 2 weeks, deja vu.

Winters

All the good ones are taken I generally find

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http://choosepeace.info/files/images/gkrellShoot_04-17-06_090038.jpg
what about theese birds?

i wonder will elviscostello find this offensive? (its also a joke)

mcauley

Interesting Title.......not so interesting content.

Terry

event wrote:

this is getting very tiresome

Indeed.

Frank carthy wrote:

i wonder will elviscostello find this offensive? (its also a joke)

That's called baiting.
Careful now.