fantasy birding

Did anyone else see the programme about twitchers the other day? There was a 7 year old girl who, with her parents, had a year list topping 300. This was in sharp contrast to the situation in the Morris family. Tomos, aged 5 , accompanied us on a cliff walk today at Gilfach yr Halen. He put in claims for a rather obvious "Dinobird" and a more plausible sounding "Striped Diver." Neither is on the British list or indeed have ever been seen on Planet Earth at all. Mishearing names can also be a problem when your 5. He muddled up a fast predatory bird with pointy wings that we saw(a peregrine falcon) with a colleague of my wifes at Denmark Farm conservation centre (a peregrine malcolm). I bet Chief Twitcher, Judge and Executioner Lee Evans would be less than impressed.