For some gormless reason the " thingys" wouldn't let me put this one on the previous post ...despite several attempts. But now, here it is ..... dragged up screaming with rage from post 457 ...... A long time ago I told you all about those " tick celebrations" that birders often do after a successful twitch. There's really two parts to the thing....... When they get home, they have a special tree they climb ..... usually fairly close to where they live. They climb back down again of course. But before they leave the ticking site, certainly before they set off home, individual birders all have their own little " tick dance" ...some sort of physical thing they do in the immediate aftermath of an exciting sighting . That all got started, I think, when they did that " gold dance" in that "Detectorists" series. We wanted some of that, But the tree-climbing thing ..that's been going on for yonks. Richard Jefferies did it. Eric Hardy did it. T.A.Coward did it. I've been at the forefront of "widening" the "possibilities" for those little dances, and I've been particularly influential in bringing in the "silly walk" as an option, especially for older members of the birding universe. But I didn't find out until recently about these .... compilations of "silly walks" from different countries which are daft, cathartic and lovely. As am I.... so here's a few..... for a start, here's some Hungarians showing us their moves ...... surely one of these will be right for you...... Here's one of the really early ones ... the uniforms are, of course, optional .... Here's another rich source of ideas ... ..and here's some oddbods from Brno .... So..if you haven't sorted out your "tick celebration" yet, now's your big chance . Here's links to two of my previous articles about "that sort of thing" ..... 174-tick-celebrations-a-selection.html 238-another-space-saving-tick-dance.html ...and here's that "Detectorist's Dance .... even a clapped-out old cynic like me finds it beautiful !
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