Seeing as I featured "boobtubers" in the previous post, I thought I should tell you more about various slangy birding words I've invented .. Years ago I invented a bunch of "new" birding word to suit many situations and needs. It all started off with ...surprise surprise ...some Welsh ones .. well, based on Welsh anyway .. GWIBBERS ... these are birders who have itchy feet ... they get to rarity 1 for the day, and only look at it for 17 seconds and they're chivvying everyone in their gang to get on to the next one. I know a good few of these. And so do you most probably. It comes from the excellent Welsh word " gwib" .. a jaunt, a "wander." DUCKMUGGERS .. these are people...we won't dignify them with any more advanced term ... who have an over-vivid imagination, bird-wise. They see a distant cormorant, and report it as an albatross. They read somewhere that a local wood contains Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers and the very first bird they see is a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker .. despite the fact that they've not been seen there for 17 years. We all know some of those. It comes from the Welsh verb dychmygu .. to imagine. Isn't this blog educational folks ! DRUGDUBBER .. they don't believe anything you've seen. I saw a Rosefinch at Salthouse on Tuesday ... Rubbish ... it was probably a Linnet you bloody halfwit. It's from the Welsh adjective drwgdybus .. suspicious. Right .. onto some non-Welsh ones now ... I'm quite proud of some of these .. AZTEC ... an Aztec is a person who only ever looks at bird through his/her bloody huge camera lens. This habit has got to the point where there are notices in some hides asking these bloody Aztecs not to hog the front seats for hours on end. Oh yes. They don't take any notice of the notices though. The term comes, of course, from wonderful Scottish band Aztec Camera .. BOOBTUBER ... you all know these ...they're people who have loads of birding equipment, posh telescopes, whizzo bins, all the gear, but haven't got a bloody clue. This can lead to major-league duckmugging. They've got their "tubes" ..telescopes, bins... but they're always getting it wrong ... the boobs. Simple. BEE .. I once came across an acquaintance of mine, whom I had not seen for ages, sitting on an upturned boat on St. Mary's. I've hardly ever seen him birding where he actually lives. He "Birds Everywhere Else" ..he's a BEE. SIBLING ... this is an easy one.. you know those people that, whenever you say you've seen something, they've seen it before you. I saw a Gannet fly over my house yesterday... oh, I saw it 10 minutes before from my yacht.... anyways, they're SIBlings ... Seen It Before you. TOE-RAGS .... similar sort of thing ..except that when you see something, they've seen two. Hey, there was a Bluethroat on the dunes yesterday .. oh, I saw two actually. Two Of Everything. That's enough of those for now ... music time ... Aztec Camera ... how thematic .... "Walk out to winter" ... includes seawatching possibilities ... It's just occurred to me that the Cure's " 17 seconds" would have also been a good choice. Next time then ..
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