The 1944 film Tawny Pipit (as mentioned further down this thread) is being shown on Talking Pictures TV this evening at 18:05 https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/

Nice one Mr Woosey, I remember watching the film on a sunday afternoon at home many moons ago, I have it on video but will now upgrade.

My first real Tawny was self found on Flamborough head, still like to see them, brings back memories of when everything was new and rare.

"Tawny Pipit" (see post further down thread) has finally got its first UK DVD release:

http://www.odeonent.co.uk/product.asp?cid=&pid=2524

One for the old film buffs..

Incredibly, this rage of re-naming films was going round Scilly as well whilst I was there -I was unaware of this thread. It was just up my husband's street. thinking them all up - a lot were the same as on this thread...we think Chiffy chiffy bang bang is better, though!

I don't think anyone has previously mentioned the Bond movie 'Goldeneye'

High Loon
Jurrasic Lark
Mamma Kia
The Da Finchy Code (Oh no! Did I just type that? I must stop doing any more of these right now!)

Saturday Nightingale Fever
Billy Lyrebird
The Loneliness of the Long-distance Logrunner
Fun in Tapaculo
Saturday Kite and Sunday Mourning Dove
The Perfect Storm-petrel
Tea House of the August Loon
Ghost Bustards
The Shoot Coursers Don't They ( a Maltese film)
The Last Pitta Show

Taxi Diver

Raging Bullfinch

Love the "Good the bad and the Lappet faced vulture" lol

How about...

A fist full of Rollers
For a few Rollers more

Loonraker. starring James Pond
American Magpie
A Partridge too far
The Blair twitch project
Saving private wryneck

Cetti Cetti Bang Bang
Smiles of a Summer Nightjar
Oh What A Lovely Warbler
Sora!Sora!Sora!
The Tit and The Penduline
The Longest Jay
Roc Around The Clock (or if you don't like fantasy)
Cock of the Rock Around The Clock
Great Aukspectations (sadly now deleted)

and specially for Iain J

Only Tui Can Play

Look Who's Cawing

Sleepless in Sea Eagle

Crow Vadis

Tern(er) and Hooch

The (Blue) Tit and The Pendulum

Who's That Gull

Heron Can Wait

Rob(in) Roy

Dove Story

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Fiddler on the Ruff
Poltergeese
and finally.....News at Hen!!

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101 Dalmation Pelicans

The Prion King
Das Coot
The Redshank Redemption
Cranespotting

And my local patch in film ...

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind
Field of Dreams

Coot - 1971 film starring Donald (duck) Sutherland & Crane Fondler (Jane Fonda) (aka Klute)

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Another for the Bond collection: Goldfincher (even fits the music )

Also: Steel Magnolia Warblers
The Last Emperor Penguin
The Third Mannakin
Anne of a Thousand Jays
Good Will Bunting

(See what you've started, Riggers)

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What about (apologies if already done)

The Blackbird Jungle
Gull Durham (or Bullfinch Durhum... or Bull Dunnock) :D
Buzzard Lightyear
The Great Train Robinry
Tern Of The Crew
Curlew Sue
The Kingfisher And I

Dove Story
Little Bittern
Heartbeak ()
Starling Buds of May
Jackdawnory
Gangs of New Stork
Whooper Nanny

or maybe Ti-AntShrike

There certainly isn't

Road Runner (the Director's Cut)

and for foreign film fans

Kagu-musha

now, back to the washing-up

There's no end to them Matt ...

Enter the Trogon
Full Metal Jackdaw
Saturday Night Weaver
Nightjar on Elm Street
Whatever Happened to Baby Jay
A Fish called Vanga
Jailhouse Rook
Planet of the Aves

and, of course, Tit-Ani-C

This thread has brought back memories of long nights in a certain Cley pub, copious amounts of real ale, and the silliyness of Mark 'Joker' Rigby and Mike 'Bearded Tit' Chorley cake.

The Bellbirds of St. Trinnians

Hen Hur

Eyes Whydah Shut

Parrots of the Carribean 1-947

The African Quelea

ZebraFinchski Point (the Russian re-make?)

Buffalo-Weavers (with Joachim Phoenix)

Sex, Lies & Vireotapes

A Tale of Two Asities

Debbie Does Pallas (Warbler) - don't know what that film was about, never seen it

Rocky Pipit

Rocky Pipit II

Rocky Pipit III

Rocky......oh, you get the drift

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Tawny Pipit - 1944 | 81 mins | Comedy | B&W
The Production Team
Director: Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders.
Producer: Bernard Miles.
Script: Charles Saunders. (based on a story Bernard Miles)
Cinematography: Eric Cross and Ray Sturgess.
Editing: Douglas Myers.
Art Direction: Alex Vetchinsky.
Original Music: Noel Mewton-Wood.
Music Direction: Muir Mathieson.
The Cast
Bernard Miles - Col. Barton-Barrington
Rosamund John - Hagel Broome
Niall MacGinnis - Jimmy Bancroft
Jean Gillie - Nancy Forester
Lucie Mannheim - Russian Sniper
Christopher Steele - Reverend Kingsley
Brefni O'Rorke - Uncle Arthur
George Carney - Whimbrel
Wylie Watson - Croaker Plot Synopsis
1944s Tawny Pipit is a whimsical comedy gently poking fun at British officialdom and the eccentricities of village life. A convalescing WWII airman and his nurse discover a pair of rare tawny pipits, known to have bred only once before in England, nesting in a Cotswolds meadow. The nurse's ornithologist uncle arrives to take charge and, afraid of having the valuable eggs stolen, villagers post a round-the-clock guard. But the threat of egg thieves is only part of the dilemma; soon army tanks on manoeuvres and farmers wishing to plough the land threaten the birds sanctuary. Finally, the Ministry of Agriculture has to be called in to save the birds.

And now for some extreme silliness

Seven Bridle Terns for Seven Brothers
Layer Crake
The King and Eider
Withnail and Eider
Lady Chatterley's Plover
Wuthering Twites
Serindipity
The Maltese (dead) Falcon
My Fair Lady Amherst's Pheasant
The Great Escapee
Breakfast at Nancys
The Road to Bali Starling
Gunfight at the OK Corral-billed Scimiter Babbler
The South Pacific Golden Plover
Blue Velvet Scoter
Rollerball

Audenshaw Reservoir Dogs

Pennington Flashdance (I would have put Scotman's Flashdance, but didn't want my local patch associated with such a crap film)

Betty Bluetail

There is an actual film called Tawny Pipit. I've never seen it but noticed it once in TV listings, think it was from the 1950's, about a German prisoner of war in England, who finds a nesting pair of Tawny Pipits (the review didn't mention whether this record had ever been recognised by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel!)

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yeah er....only one film here but an insight as to what l watch on tv (ish)

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Mel,
you missed one from current TV - Merlin

Films:

Butch Cassowary & the Sundance Corvid
Lord of the Ring Ousels
Harry Pitta

Hill Street Blue Flycatcher

Melanie Beckford wrote:

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Ready,Steady,Rook
Coronation Tweet (sorry)
Desperate HouseSparrows
Jays of Our Lives
Weakest Linnet
Little Owl on the Prairie
Whimbreldon (this keeps making me laugh)
On Golden Plover
Never Mind The Buzzards
Teal or No Teal.........

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yeah er....only one film here but an insight as to what l watch on tv (ish)

Clockwork Orange-headed Thrush

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Ready,Steady,Rook
Coronation Tweet (sorry)
Desperate HouseSparrows
Jays of Our Lives
Weakest Linnet
Little Owl on the Prairie
Whimbreldon (this keeps making me laugh)
On Golden Plover
Never Mind The Buzzards
Teal or No Teal.........

A couple more classics, John.........

The Birds

A History of Mr. Polly

also

Goshawk Park

The Ghost and Mrs. Murre

The Nighthawk(er)

The Eider Sanction

Whistle Down the Windhover

7 Brides for 7 Brolgas

Black Stork Down

In Wigeon We Serve

Elmer Gannetry

OK then ...

Easy Wader
Gone with the Windhover
An American Robin in Paris
Midnight Cowbird
Raging Bullfinch
Starling Wars
Who's afraid of Virginia Rail
All Quiet on the Western Tanager Front
Schindler's List (Didn't even know he was a birder)

Plus those classics:

Duck Soup
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
and ... To Kill a Mockingbird

Following on from the Birds In Music thread. Some birds that have appeared on the big screen and there are some classics. Staring Clint Eastwoodpecker For a few Dollarbirds more. A fist full of Dollarbirds. Easy Diver. The good, the bad and the Lappet faced Vulture. Various Bond Movies A view to a Killdeer The man with the Golden Pheasant. From Russia with Dove. Casino Royal Tern. Dr Dodo. The world is not a Chough. Live and let Diver. And the following classics Silence of the Lammergeier. Texas chainsaw Merganser. Day of the Grackle. Cranes,Crakes and Waterrails. On Goldeneye pond. Where Golden Eagles dare. Monty Python and the holy Quail. Citizen Crane. Last Tanager in Paris. The Dam Bustards. Waders of the lost Auk. Blazing Saddle-billed Storks. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Curlew. Lets see how many more you can get-summat to do on those dark rainy nights during the winter!