Birds.........: U.T.C.H 400 Club

Sunday, 24 October 2010

U.T.C.H 400 Club

Hey up folks, big day today! Today I became the founder member of the U.T.C.H 400 Club. This afternoons visit to Utch was my 400th in the two and a half years since RP first showed me what I was missin' while I plodded round Croxden. Four hundred visits and the best I've managed to muster is a poxey Purple Sand' in September this year! Yes I know Purp' is a good bird inland but I won't settle 'til I set up The Beast and find meself gawpin' at a crippler!!!!!

Nothin' of any real note today with highlights being 3 Ravens, a pesky male Peregrine and a sun tanned RP lookin' like he'd been tangoed after sunnin' himself on Scilly.

Goosander 22, Teal 40, Goldeneye 2, Golden Plover 3, Dunlin 1, Snipe 2, Raven 3, Peregrine 1.

While I was scopin' the main lagoon I heard several loud bangs comin' from the quarry works so I texted old "Hey Presto" the quarry manager to let him know there might be summat goin' on and perhaps gain a few brownie points for the future. BINGO! Six local numpties nabbed on site by the bobbies!!! After this I may well get "full" access.

That's all folks.

2 comments:

Richard Powell25 October 2010 at 21:55
So they were on the nick eh? Good stuff!
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Richard Powell25 October 2010 at 21:57
Oh yes, and also. I didn't know you were that old! :o)
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Glossary

'ave a buchas: North Staffs slang meaning to look at something.
Aviarazzi: a recently penned phrase to describe the ever expanding glut of bird "photographers".
Barwit: Bar-Tailed Godwit.
Big Daddy: huge seventies wrestler. Famous for the Daddy Splash!
Blithers: Blithfield Reservoir.
Blocker: a blocker would be something like Yellow-throated Vireo, a bird that is on very few modern day twitchers lists and would cause a bit of a stampede. Another good example would be Golden-winged Warbler.
Blockheads: Black-headed Gulls.
Bostin': great, good, super... a phrase i picked up workin' in Wolvo.
Bothdee: birthday
Brookers: Brookleys Lake, popular with Fudge Ducks.
Brown Bread: dead.
Brum: Birmingham.
Bupooter: Computer.
Can's : Canada Geese.
Caspo: Caspian Gull.
CBA: Cheesedale Bird Alert.
Chaydle: local slang for Cheadle/Cheesedale. I live in Chaydle but do most of my birdin' at Utch.
Cheesedale: alias Cheadle a Staffordshire market town.
Cheesedalien: inhabitant of Cheesedale.
Chicken Scoffer: nickname given to a birders ex who was partial to the odd roast chicken or two on the way back from his latest twitch.
Chip Eater: inhabitant of the potteries.
Chipper: not well, unwell, ill.
Cream Crackered: knackered, tired, worn out .....
Crippler: see MEGA.
Cripplin': breathtakin', orgasmic, superb...... really good.
Crispy Duck: unpopular delicacy among big heifers.
Crosser: Crossbill.
Dude: a birder with top quality optics, outdoor clobber etc..... who would probably think a Tertial is a kind of Dove!!!
Eddle Preddle: Elvis Presley.
Fudge Duck: Ferruginous Duck.
Gazunders: Goosanders
GND: Great Northern Diver
Granny Smiths: type of apple. Best left for winter thrushs.
Gruel: poor food normally served to unwanted guests or husbands.
Gypo Goose: Egyptian Goose an ugly avian brute if ever there was one.
Gypo Goose: Egyptian Goose.
Habo: habitat
Jack and Danny: fanny.
Jizz: a combination of characteristics which identify a bird in the field.
Kosher: genuine, real.
lags : Greylag Geese.
Lappy: large green wading bird that looks like an escaped Cockatiel got lucky with one of the locals.
LEO: Long-eared Owl.
Lurgy: illness.
Macky D's: Mcdonalds home of the golden arch's.
Mandies: Mandarins, ducks not small oranges.
MEGA. normally reserved for a bird that as only occured a few times before or never! A Cheesedale Mega would be a Gadwall.
Mince Pies: eyes.
Mr Benn: popular childrens character from the seventies.
Mudpeckers: Waders.
Muntcateers: local deer hunters.
Nogger: north staffordshire slang for football. "are we havin' a game of nogger then"?
Numpty: scottish term popularised by former Ipswich Town frontman Alan Brazil.
Nut Nibbler: woodpecker or squirrel.
Nut Pecker: woodpecker. A name first used by our Alex when she was a toddler, a long time ago now.
Oik: birders slang for Oystercatcher and also another name for a spotty herbert or little t##t.
Old Beanflirter: mate, pal, friend, mucker etc...
Pinkies: Pink-footed Geese.
Pipin': name given to the manic head down displaying of Oystercatchers.
Pour moi: for me.
Poxey: Croxden Quarry.
Razzle: popular reference material for people interested in Woodcock.
Robin Stroker: some one with a passing interest in birds. And normally has his/her very own pet Robin in the garden!
Rubber Shelduck: Ruddy Shelduck
Ruby Murray: Currie.
Samovar: Russian tea pot thingy.
Sherbert: anything wet, especially Kronenbourg, Export, Grolsch etc...
Skitterin': a light coverin' of snow.
Slog Iron: Mountain Bike.
snappin': snappin' time, North Staffs slang for lunch,dinner, tea etc dependin' on which shift you are on.
Spiflicated: even I can't give a definition of this, it's easier read than said!
Stockers: Stock Doves.
T Cups: pottery drinkin' vessels or an item of female clothin' used for a bit of support.
The Potteries: local name for Stoke-on-Trent, home to Master Potter Josiah Wedgewood.
The Weaves: The Weaver Hills.
Tickle Tackle: use your imagination on that one.
Tom tits: normally occurs after to much cider.
Trigger: famous countin' steed of the singin' cowboy Roy Rodgers.
UTB: Under The Belt. A phrase some times used to describe finally seein' a bird.
Utch: Uttoxeter Quarry.
vismig: Visible Migration, popular among birders who can get out for an hour or two before work. Normally takes place on some windy hilltop.
Wag's: small ground feedin' passerines or alternatively foxy chicks with loaded nogger playin' other halves.
Whoppers: large white birds....Whooper Swans.
wingus intactus: fully winged and hopefully unringed!
Wobbler: warbler
Wolvo: Wolverhampton better parts of which include Low Hill, The Scotlands, Heath Town, Ellerton Walk and Chervil Rise.
Wom: home.
Wood Pig': Wood Pigeon
Y'ammer: Yellowhammer.
Y-fronts: practical item of underwear ideal for those cold mornings when you've had one brew to many. Popular with Polish vizmiggas.
YLG: Yellow-legged Gull.

Only Jokin' Owd Duck.

This one crippled me today, it's a belter!

A policeman with a sniffer dog came up to me the other day and said, "my dog tells me you're on drugs." "ME!" I said "you're the one with the f####in' talkin' dog!!!!"