Indeed, if it’s a USAmerican bird, the ‘fix’ is in… Language can be fun (especially when the comic is unconscious of the game).
Doug
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 6:57 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Very good.
> All I know of bitterns is my good friend and colleague John Drever, with
> whom I make text-sound performances, trying to give me a sense of what
> sounds they make after he went bittern listening.
>
> But I was struck by that image of a bird covered in binoculars
>
> It was an American bittern. That was why there is the interest. Don't get
> many of them apparently. Not here.
>
>
> L
>
> On 25 April 2018 at 13:33, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> A great bittern tale, L. Sounding almost barnacular.
>>
>> B
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 9:16 pm, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> haha
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/04/2018 08:08, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>> From BBC Radio 4 about 6:50 a.m. today
>>>>
>>>> "A bitten has arrived in Suffolk with thousands of binoculars fixed on
>>> it."
>>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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