{"id":434,"date":"2010-01-24T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/434\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:12:37","slug":"434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/434\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Some Famous “Birding” Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet<\/strong>, desperately hoping that her boyfriend Romeo would return before the Black-and-white Warbler<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

“We are not amused” Queen Victoria<\/strong> on being regretfully informed that hers was not the biggest life list<\/strong> in the British Empire.<\/p>\n

“We’ll find them on the beaches” W.Churchill<\/strong> predicting an auk wreck<\/strong> on the east coast.<\/p>\n

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

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

“To be or not to be, that is the question” Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/strong>, deeply affected by his 15th successiv<\/strong>e dip. Wishing to avoid exposure to the ridicule of his birdwatching colleagues, he is caught up in an existentialist debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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