I'm sure many of you remember the early days of Springwatch ... when that Chris Packham used to slip in subliminal song titles along with his normal explanations of why Robins were small, and why Gannets were big. He had a "Smiths" season .... including "What difference does it make." ... that was easy to slip in .. in fact it's not a bad answer to that Robin/Gannet thing .... he probably managed to get quite a few other in there .... Meat is Murder, Is it really so strange, Stretch out and wait, Heaven knows I'm miserable now, Panic, How soon is now, Bigmouth strikes again .... it's easy to see how those could be wheedled into a " normal" birding-related paragraph. Mind you, "Vicar in a Tutu" would be a tough one ... no way !! I bet some of you doubters out there are thinking ... surely you've made that up. Well...have a look at this ..... He also had a season of Cure songs .... now there's some really juicy ones there ... "Like Cockatoos" is a no-brainer. In fact, I did a similar thing this morning ... I distinctly remember telling The Significant Otter that it was a Strange Day, though not Hot, Hot, Hot morning, that I fancied visiting A Forest later in the day, but there was Never Enough Time, but I might be able to slot something In Between Days . Just see how subtly our Chris bungs in a whole cavalcade of Cure song titles in here ... I think he's stopped doing it now ... or maybe he's just moved on to bands I'm not familiar with. I rather hold out a hope that he'll "do" Gorky's Zygotic Mynci next time... there's loads of absolute sitting ducks in their back catalogue ... for example .... Merched yn neud gwallt ei gilydd ( would go well with "mutual preening") Bocs Angelica ( she probably kept her bird-ringing equipment in it) Cwpwrdd Sadwrn ( that's where she keeps her bird food supply) Sdim yr adar yn canu ( well, they don't do it to order you know) Sbia ar Y seren ( whilst waiting for the owl/nightjars to get going) Eira ( winterwatch) Methu aros tan haf ( nor can I) Bwyd time ( that's when he fills the bird-feeders) Pentref wrth y môr ( handy for seabirds) Siwt nofio ( for getting undersea shots) Beth sy'n digwydd i'r fuwch ( what indeed ?) Here, for your delight, is that first one .....
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