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Unknown said: But, on a happier note, didn't you just love the extract from the film 'Tawny Pipit'.
But, on a happier note, didn't you just love the extract from the film 'Tawny Pipit'.
Yeh what I saw was really lovely - as I was taking 'tiny' to bed at the time!!
'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks' John Muir.
Excuse wobbily dyslexic spelling!
Birds Britannica was very very good! Engrossing and full of things I didn't know about.
For me it brought home the importance of the campaigns for the Farm Schemes subsidies the RSPB has been campaigning for - left to the 'Market', extinctions pile up quickly.
Its difficult - I personally would rather chemicals had not been used in the first place but with world food demand set to double by 2050 I can't see any other options really. I also think GM is a horrible thought but is inevitable too unless population growth is halted. Scary really.
I'm not bald. I've just got ingrowing hair!
Hi
I think farming methods have done more harm than the chemical
When I was a lad in the fifties we had loads of small fields boarded by hedgerows. There were woods ponds and streams.
Go back to the area now and its one gigantic corn field.
Reagards Ray
a good laugh is better than a tonic
Hi Stephen Moss did a great job- now I'd like him and Mark Cocker to do a series on Richard Meinertzhagen
:)
S
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I thought Birds Brittania was a very good series. It was must-see TV.Thank God for BBC4. A diamond in a ocean of costume jewellery!
Roll on Springwatch :)
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I totally agree about BB, Graham
Engrossing and thought-provoking. I hope they repeat it sometime.
Pipit
Ditto to all that Graham and Pip say.
seymouraves said: Hi Stephen Moss did a great job- now I'd like him and Mark Cocker to do a series on Richard Meinertzhagen :) S
A curious choice, Seymour
Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen CBE DSO (3 March 1878 - 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist. (wikipedia)
However, his ornithological exploits have been proven as very suspect!
And I don't think Lawrence of Arabia liked him much -
Meinertzhagen knew no half measures. He was logical, an idealist of the deepest, and so possessed by his convictions that he was willing to harness evil to the chariot of good. He was a strategist, a geographer, and a silent laughing masterful man; who took as blithe a pleasure in deceiving his enemy (or his friend) by some unscrupulous jest, as in spattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans one by one with his African knob-kerri. His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain.... – T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926
Meinertzhagen knew no half measures. He was logical, an idealist of the deepest, and so possessed by his convictions that he was willing to harness evil to the chariot of good. He was a strategist, a geographer, and a silent laughing masterful man; who took as blithe a pleasure in deceiving his enemy (or his friend) by some unscrupulous jest, as in spattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans one by one with his African knob-kerri. His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain....
– T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926
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