Britain's National Bird

[mrandmrspoves]

It should be the Swan - seeing as they all belong to Madge.

Not injured swans though......

I have always liked the music of that great Irish band The Saw Doctors and for a long time believed they sang a song about two injured swans.
Finally it dawned on me the song is actually To Win Just Once. The lyrics make more sense now!

 

[vernon]

It should be the Swan.

I'll go with that.

All other birds are mere snacks.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I'll go with that.

All other birds are mere snacks.

I hope you got Madge's permission or you could be tried for treason or something!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

[QUOTE 3593076, member: 9609"]TMN may have a hairy canary if she reads some of the posts in here[/QUOTE]

No.
No.
I was tempted but I'm not that brave.

GC

 

[mrandmrspoves]

@vernon is royalty - so no need.

Good - because otherwise he might have cooked his goose!

 

[Tojo]

But Red Grouse = cooking whisky

I disagree about the red grouse as I have a couple in the freezer that my falcon killed on the moor..yumm with bread sauce..... but I know where your coming from with your statement the whiskey as I have had heathens ask me, when I've had folk back... ( are we having a snifter...) do you have any lemonade....my retort is if you want anything in a good whiskey except more of the same.....you're having the cooking one and in my hoose they get bell's.....an allllll the lemonade thy can drink....

 

[Globalti]

The national bird also has to personify the characteristics of the nation it represents. So is it the cheecky sparrow? The tuneful and elegant blackbird? The perky, reliable robin? The majestic golden eagle? The silent and deadly eagle owl?

No, for England at least it has to be the lazy, fat, greedy and slovenly feral city pigeon.

 

[raleighnut]

I disagree about the red grouse as I have a couple in the freezer that my falcon killed on the moor..yumm with bread sauce..... but I know where your coming from with your statement the whiskey as I have had heathens ask me, when I've had folk back... ( are we having a snifter...) do you have any lemonade....my retort is if you want anything in a good whiskey except more of the same.....you're having the cooking one and in my hoose they get bell's.....an allllll the lemonade thy can drink....

It happened the other way round at my uncle Jack's house one Christmas, he asked what I would like to drink and I said I'd have a Whisky. When he asked what I would like with it and I replied "Nothing, just Straight" he put down the bottle of Bells and picked up the bottle of Glenlivit. My first drop of Single Malt. So it is all his fault really.

 

[brand]

I disagree about the red grouse as I have a couple in the freezer that my falcon killed on the moor..yumm with bread sauce..... but I know where your coming from with your statement the whiskey as I have had heathens ask me, when I've had folk back... ( are we having a snifter...) do you have any lemonade....my retort is if you want anything in a good whiskey except more of the same.....you're having the cooking one and in my hoose they get bell's.....an allllll the lemonade thy can drink....

I bought a mate a 20 year old whisky. He said he would save it for a special occasion. His girlfriend had a girls night in, when he got got back they had drunk it all.....with coke (the drink not the drugs). After 12 years he has still has not forgiven her.

 

[brand]

No, for England at least it has to be the lazy, fat, greedy and slovenly feral city pigeon.

Bird bath 20 foot from back window, lots of twigs around the base for their crappy nests. Air rifle and George Foreman Grill. Wood pigeon for breakfast.
Living rural I never see feral pigeons but willing to give them a try.

 

[Globalti]

One Christmas I wanted to give my neighbour Rita a present to thank her for being a great neighbour and keeping an eye on my house while I was away on trips. I asked her son aged about ten what she liked to drink and he replied "Mum likes whisky!". When I asked him which particular brand he thought for a moment then replied: "The one with a duck on the label"

We lived right beside the East Lancashire Railway and used to get some quite interesting steam engines chuffing past rattling the windows. One particular weekend the big streamlined blue Pacific Class loco shot past and Rita called out: (Fred Dibnah accent here) "Eeeh look.... it's that Sir Nigel Dempster!"

 

[totallyfixed]

I hate being given short lists, if this is going to be, let folk vote freely for whatever they want. I vote Kestrel, a contender for our most easily recognisable bird, declining in numbers but still ubiquitous just about everywhere.

 

[AndyRM]

I hate being given short lists, if this is going to be, let folk vote freely for whatever they want. I vote Kestrel, a contender for our most easily recognisable bird, declining in numbers but still ubiquitous just about everywhere.

If I'd known about it earlier I could have started a thread when there was a flock of 60 to choose from. Kestrel is a good shout too.

 

[brand]

I have decided on mine, Barn Owl. I used to meet one cycling to pub. I would look to the right at night, at the same spot every time (although not every night) and he would being flying beside me. He would slowly turn his head and look directly at me. A little creepy, when I turned to check the road ahead and then looked back he wouldn't be there. He would now be above my head using my bike light (I assume) to hunt prey. He would then regularly swoop down in front of me onto the grass verge. I can't say I ever saw him fly off with any scoff but it would have been difficult to see anyway.
This happens all the time now apart from the flying beside me. Including daylight. Last Friday on an early morning 9 miles cycle ride, along an empty cycle path there was an owl (or owls) flying all round me.

 

[totallyfixed]

I know . It survived for much longer than I anticipated. You had the shortest odds though.