Here's a rather odd, but intriguing " Sightings List" apparently drawn and written by a certain Harry Redtank ..... it first appeared on here way back on post 25 ... there's bigger and better enlargements of it all at the end on this post ...... I don't know about other reserves etc, but at Grumbling Stumps the book in which we scribble our sightings has been kicked into the long grass during the pandemic ... and all we have now is a whiteboard at the entrance, which for 90% of the time is obscured by the crowd of "officials" in their little shed. Plus it is miles out of date and a trifle fictitious. The problem with that is, there's no feedback. In the Pre-Covid-Paradise we could write down our sightings, peruse the sightings of others ... and best of all, we could annotate them with sarcastic put-downs appended to dodgy sightings, and actual crossings-out of preposterous entries penned by nits, numpties, prannocks and twerps . You would be amazed, and probably have been, at the gormless old rubbish people write in them. There's various categories of crap .... [a] Terribel Spelin ...... Herrin at Witterbix Hide Treecripper up the tower Gret Spotty Woopeker at Mash Hide [b] Mysterious birds Little Spotty Speckle Freckly Willow Asymmetrick Flyingjay [c] Flights of imagination Tiny penguins in the reeds Three copperlating Granites at sea hide ( Grannies perhaps ?) Jack the Snip up the channel. [d] Irrelevances Strange man up the causeway. Too many Tanagers up the reserve (teenagers maybe ?) Cut the reedbeds much lower so we can see the Bitterns [e] Unlikely events Eleven men were walking backwards to the Lower Hide Naked female swimming up the main channel. An elderly couple fast asleep in the Prince Harry Hide. I'm sure you've all seen all sorts of similar nonsense .... and it would be wonderful if you could send me some good-uns and I could add them to the list. There's the comment thing for you to put them on. And there's my email [email protected] But now, some music... the excellent Wir sind Helden und " Guten Tag" .... In case you couldn't read the "sightings" up at the top, here's enlargements of the top, middle and bottom, with slight overlaps ..... enjoy !! It wasn't Harry who did that actually ... it was me !
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