I'm sure we all miss CP's "song titles" silliness in the early days of Spring-/Autumn-Watch ... they were ingenious and entertaining ...and I showed you lucky lot some video compilations of them. Who can forget " Vicar in a tutu" for example ? Why he stopped doing it I don't know ... was it "the management" not liking the frivolousness of it all, were watchers complaining, did he run out of ideas ... who knows, but it's a sad loss. So, just in case he has run out of ideas, here's some suggestions from me, myself, the writer, yours truly .... maybe the most glaringly obvious one in the light of the recent broadcasts has to be " (I'm not looking for) a New England " ... by the excellent Billy Bragg ...go on, we'll have a listen ... But Mr. Bragg can supply the idea-less Christopher with more ... I'm even going to suggest suitable scenarios into which they could be surreptitiously slid .... here's just a few to get him started ... .. he's birding with top birder Ron Johns .. " I don't need this pressure, Ron." ... he's seawatching, successfully for once ..... " Birds and Ships" .. he's mammal-watching, but unfortunately ... " The wolf covers his tracks" ..Chris and Michaela get turned away at the "Unisex Chipshop" .. he trying to get his car-list up a bit ... " From a Vauxhaul Velox." .. he's had a lot of trouble finding a Treecreeper .. " Someday, some morning , some time." ... the Scilly boat has sunk, with his entire production team on board .... " Island of no return" .. the producer wants greater "presenter diversity" ... "Greetings to the new brunette" ... He's had one of his rarity descriptions queried by the BBRC ... " Must I paint you a picture" ... he's spent the whole day mansplaining everything to Michaela, getting his graphs upside down, endlessly recording never-to-be-used links, he's sick of "cheeky chipmunks" , and showing us views of astonishingly empty bird tables whilst sitting on a tiny freezing-cold benchlet.... " Days like these" Oh look ... they're real song too ... here's one of them... .and here's a remarkable "version" of "Unisex Chipshop" by Bill Bailey ... this video is odd in many ways, including the comments it has attracted. Great stuff, especially the " S l o w e d- D o w n" bit. This is the "answer" to a challenge I'll set you all in the future .... June 2020 actually .... It may not be the perfect answer, but I've done my best .... so here it is .. Jynx torqilla Dolichonyx Oryzivorus Galerida theklae Emberiza melanocephala Tryngites subruficollis Larus delawarensis ..and if you want to know what the "challenge" was , here's the link to it .. 895-the-latin-solution.html
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