-Just started watching a series on Netflix - The Last Kingdom, about viking raiders attacking Saxon England. It starts in the year 866, and the opening scenes show a falconer with his bird. Is it a Peregrine, a Gyr, or perhaps a Goshawk? Of course not; - you must surely guess, - of course its a Harris Hawk; - a regular mistake these days in otherwise quite well produced historic sagas, but wrong by approx. 650/700 years. Its a bigger boob than seeing Henry VIII caught on camera using a mobile to chat up Ann Boleyn.
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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/
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!
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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
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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
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Pennington Flashdance (I would have put Scotman's Flashdance, but didn't want my local patch associated with such a crap film)
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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!)
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.........
yeah er....only one film here but an insight as to what l watch on tv (ish)
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.........
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!
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