I was going to offer a top prize to anyone who could work out what this picture, taken by me of course, has to do with the following harticule ... but seeing as I don't know either, I'd better not. All Praise to the god of Randomness.Whoever he or she is. Here's a simple tale of ticking for you .. and it was exactly 16 years ago today. We ... that is, The Significant Otter and me ..were on our way to Scilly, and we stopped in Exeter for the night. But ... I happened to know a secret Cirl Bunting Spotting Spot on the outskirts of Exeter .... could this have influenced my Choice Of Stopping Spot ? Was it a Spotting Spot Stopping Spot or What ? Surely Not ? Yes. Anyhow, I got up at some ridiculous hour of the morning, and drove to the Cirl Bunting Spotting Spot and, er, Spotted it. It took a while .... there was a lot of wandering around and scanning, all looking wonderfully/worryingly Suspicious, Shifty, Suspect and Surreptitious. But eventually, there it was. I was able to watch it for about 20 mins... I even had my scope. I could carry it in those days .... coo. I've never seen another one since. My other best chance was thwarted and aborted, frustrated and discombobulated by the biggest traffic jam in the world. So it was a good job I'd spotted it previously. Had I known about it, I could have done this little celebratory dance ..I featured quite a few of these a few posts ago, and this is another one sent in by a reader.... it's pretty easy to learn, quite showy and fun, and only takes up a small amount of space, all of which might be important to you. When I got back home , I did of course do the right thing and climb my local Jum-Jum Tree ..... I had to climb it several times actually, because I got a few other ticks on Scilly . But it was well worth it. By the way, this is going to count as your music as well. Synergy, lovely synergy. Hey... I've just thought of something ! It doesn't happen often so I'll get the full mileage out of it. That Pogba Penalty Peculiar Run-Up looks like it was nicked straight from that amazing " Tick Celebration" post I did ... it's on the "Silly walks" one.... I'm going to see if it's on't net ... no, it's not on yet ... but when it is, as it surely will be, I'll stick it on here .... (weeks later) here it is ....
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