I've been trying to keep you all busy in these tricky times ..and here's yet another brain-boggling bonce-buster for you ..... ... and it's competitive ... there's points to be scored ! .... you get your copy of The Observer's of Birds .. written by Severe Benson . (.. and in my examples of what happens, remember yours might be a bit different .) ..... and you open it at the first double-page spread ..... on the right side, there's a Jay. ... it might be something else in later/earlier editions, but whatever it is, your job is to predict what the bird "behind" it is ... in my copy it's the Carrion Crow. .. if you get that right, you get 5 points. ... and you get 3 points if it's the right sort of bird ... e.g both Thrushes, both Warblers. ... so predicting Song Thrush and it is actually Mistle ... you get 3 points. .... but you wouldn't get it for Blackbird ... it has to have the same ending ! ... otherwise you would be getting into eternal arguments about close shaves. So, you've "done" the first one. Then you look at the "new" right-hand bird, which in mine is Hooded Crow. What's "behind" that ? Its very absorbing. But you get better at it as you go along .... you can flick back to remind you of what the last few were, which helps a bit. But it ain't a doddle .... I learned to slow down ... think carefully and don't rush. And you can do it a bit at a time. You can do the same thing with almost any ID book .... going from one "page of species" to the next ... and looking at the "bottom one" on the first page, and the "top one" on the next. So there's loads of scope to use other bird books in the same way. I know it all sounds a bit odd, but it works, and once you've got started you don't want to stop. Although it's better to have a few breaks. And it was all my idea ..... I'm an inquisitive old Hector ! And as an extra bonus ..a "relevant" song.... Metallica " Turn the Page" .. it's got the words as well ... ... and as an extra bonus feature, there's lots of other Observer's books ... there's Butterflies, Trees & Shrubs, Wild Flowers, Ships, Birds Eggs, Dogs, Horses & Ponies, Fish, Geology ..... brilliant !
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