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RE: What's flying near you? - Small chilli - 31-03-2023
A pair of woodcock in the garden today. They were about yesterday as well.
RE: What's flying near you? - JJB - 31-03-2023
^^^wow, never seen one of them.
RE: What's flying near you? - SarrissUK - 31-03-2023
I'd never heard of that bird either so I goggled it and this came up:
"Almost all who have eaten them say that woodcock is the king of game birds, greater even than canvasback duck. The flavor of woodcock is said to be strong, gamey-in-a-good-way, and like nothing else. They say the earth moves when you bite into one that has been perfectly cooked: pink, and just a little bloody."
Sounds a bit exciting if you ask me!
RE: What's flying near you? - Veggie - 31-03-2023
I can't read Woodcock without thinking of that Woodchuck saying -
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Try it with Woodcock.
RE: What's flying near you? - Small chilli - 31-03-2023
(31-03-2023, 08:15 PM)SarrissUK Wrote: I'd never heard of that bird either so I goggled it and this came up:What they obviously forgot to mention was the traditional method for cooking them which is whole with guts still in and it skewered with its own beak.
"Almost all who have eaten them say that woodcock is the king of game birds, greater even than canvasback duck. The flavor of woodcock is said to be strong, gamey-in-a-good-way, and like nothing else. They say the earth moves when you bite into one that has been perfectly cooked: pink, and just a little bloody."
Sounds a bit exciting if you ask me!
a little off putting to me.
RE: What's flying near you? - SarrissUK - 01-04-2023
(31-03-2023, 08:58 PM)Small chilli Wrote: What they obviously forgot to mention was the traditional method for cooking them which is whole with guts still in and it skewered with its own beak.
a little off putting to me.
Buummppphhh!! That's me falling back down to earth!! Yeah, that's not appetising at all.
RE: What's flying near you? - Mark_Riga - 09-04-2023
Saw the first swallow of the Spring yesterday looking quite perky after its couple of thousand mile return trip.
RE: What's flying near you? - Veggie - 15-04-2023
A heron sitting on the roof, eyeing up the pond and a Brimstone butterfly sitting on the white comfrey.
RE: What's flying near you? - PyreneesPlot - 15-04-2023
A very brief visit from a stonechat, a first in the garden!
And lots of griffon vultures again - they're becoming quite a common sight.
RE: What's flying near you? - Bren - 16-04-2023
We had a Sparrow hawk sat in an apple tree watching pigeons.