Some Famous “Birding” Quotes

In case you missed them the first time round…
“Do be do be do” Frank Sinatra, dumbstruck, after having stumbled across a mind-shattering rarity.

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet, desperately hoping that her boyfriend Romeo would return before the Black-and-white Warbler that was hopping around in a bush only metres away (and that her loved one had trekked off 4 miles away to the headland to try and find) disappeared.

“We are not amused” Queen Victoria on being regretfully informed that hers was not the biggest life list in the British Empire.

“We’ll find them on the beaches” W.Churchill predicting an auk wreck on the east coast.

“I don’t remember” R.Reagan when asked to describe the characteristics of the bird which he had claimed as the first Lammergeier for the American Continent.

“You’ve never had it so good” Harold Macmillan addressing the British nation’s birdwatchers to assert that it had been one of the best years on record for Nearctic passerines.

“To be or not to be, that is the question” Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, deeply affected by his 15th successive dip. Wishing to avoid exposure to the ridicule of his birdwatching colleagues, he is caught up in an existentialist debate.

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