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(14531 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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Posted 13 years ago #
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you sure? i've seen your account and every thing.
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A twitcher will travel long distances to see abird just because it's rare. They're 'committed' to the cause.
A 'birder', however, just likes birds and knows a wee bit about them...
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"will travel long distances to see abird"
Anywhere is a long distance in this weather...
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Anywhere is a long distance in this weather..."
You've turned into a motorist overnight!!!
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"You've turned into a motorist overnight!!!"
Nah, I'm more prepared and skilled for that.
(See other thread)
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will travel long distances to see a bird
depends if she's worth it or not ;)
The stereotypical twitchers often own fast and powerful cars / motorbikes so they can get from "the City" to the Western Isles at maximum speed to tick some rarity off their list.
The stereotypical twitcher often have a bad rep with the RSPB and other conservation groups, as they turn up, park where they want, demand access, tick the thing off their list, fight with eachother to get the best vantage point, trample everything around them and then refuse to pay attention to the visitor centre that is trying to explain about the conservation work and raise a bit of cash at the same time.
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They often scare the bird too by surrounding it. They generally have a pretty bad rep. I don't really understand it myself. There are plenty of birds I would like to see but I wouldn't drive to the other end of the country to see them.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Ha! Jeremy Clarkson is a Twitcher..
Posted 13 years ago # -
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Audi TT. Stuck in the snow-slush and spinning furiously. Morrison Street. Downhill...
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Anth, on his mountain bike, just leaving the Innocent to turn onto Duddingston Road West.
I was with a troop of colleagues. We'd been sent home from work early because of the suspension of bus services so we were walking home together via the Innocent. One of our number has just got engaged and got her ring at the weekend, so we pretended she was Frodo and the rest of us were the Fellowship of the Ring trudging through the snow. We avoided the Bingham orcs.
I think this makes Anth Tom Bombadil.
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great image!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Anth, en-MTB, being pursued along Melville Drive by the cooncil scaffy wagon sitting about 2 inches off his back wheel
Posted 13 years ago # -
Not being persued by a huge flock of Waxwings then?
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"Anth, en-MTB, being pursued along Melville Drive by the cooncil scaffy wagon sitting about 2 inches off his back wheel"
Couldn't have been - he'd have mention THAT.
(Unless he was too busy looking up.)
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"Anth, en-MTB, being pursued along Melville Drive by the cooncil scaffy wagon sitting about 2 inches off his back wheel"
Couldn't have been - he'd have mention THAT.
Actually I could hear the wagon all the way along (till it turned off at Argyle Place) as if it was pretty close, but it's the first day since Monday I've ridden Melville Drive and so I was concentrating on keeping out of the way of any ice on the side (for fear of winding up behind the wheels of said wagon) to check behind to see just how close it was.
If I'd known it was that close I'd have got his registration and reported it!
And need elss to say, I didn't spot Kaputnik... Oops!
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"If I'd known it was that close I'd have got his registration and reported it!"
Well if you can agree on a time, two witnesses...
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And need elss to say, I didn't spot Kaputnik...
I was undercover, in jeans a bunnet and a jaiket, walking down to an office in town, making me harder to spot than a woodcock in an enormous pile of woodcocks.
Posted 13 years ago # -
A train -
on the South Sub too.
Probably first one for days.
Posted 13 years ago # -
My other half has noted a new bike shop up from filing station on Bruntsfield.
She says it has word 'pedal' in it and looks like small repair shop..
Posted 13 years ago # -
Did I spot Kaputnik tonight about 7.20 going through Tollcross? Didn't get a very good look.
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Did I spot Kaputnik tonight about 7.20 going through Tollcross?
Not unless you spied me in deep cover on boot and foot. I had my work trousers tucked into my hiking socks in a very fetching manner.
I did however think I'd spotted myself this morning when I saw a chap on an old blue Kona road bike with yellow bar tape. But it turned out to be someone else...
Posted 13 years ago # -
That would have been a bit scary. :-O
It was someone with yellow bits on their jacket on a bike similar to your single speed that I saw. Perhaps you are being cloned?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Flattery is the sincerest form of intimidation.
Posted 13 years ago # -
:O perhaps indeed! Single speed has been tucked up safely in the house since the back wheel got mended mid-November. Mainly due to lack of mudguards and I've still got it in the silly big experimental 84 inch gear that gets you wheel spin on hill starts!
Posted 13 years ago # -
I'm a little hurt that nobody has spotted my balaclava-clad form flitting around town. I guess now I'm not on the invisible bike, I've become harder to see ;-)
Posted 13 years ago # -
@Dave - what colour of Balaclava? Blue balaclava-clad cyclist pulled up next to me at the lights at Tollcross this morning.
Also spotted - chap on a red/white drop-bar, x23c wheeled Claud Butler cycling next to me along Melville Drive as we filtered slowly through the traffic on the inside and outside and the wrong lane. Wearing fashionable jeans (with the waistline sufficient to reveal boxers), a grey sweater and some leather shoes (on clipless pedals). One hand in pocket, the other with jumper wrapped around it in a failed attempt to make a glove. "You must be cold" said I. "Seemed like a good idea when I left the house" said he. Exchanged pleasantries about cycling in these sort of conditions, said it was his first ride in it - "no sh*t", thought I!
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Car with snow chains.
No really, first one I've seen 'this' winter.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Car with snow chains."
I saw a small van a few weeks back with chains on, driving on tarmac. Don't care about the damage he does to his tyres but I do care about the damage to the roads.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Someone mentioned automatic snow chains for fire engines on another thread that I've lost. I saw some chain-like projections hanging down around the rear axle of a L&B wagon last night
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