The Lincolnshire Bird Club

First Nightingale back at Whisby this morning!

Cheers

Grahame

Grahame

As welcome as it is to have the first Nightingale back (and on such an early date) I was hoping your post may have related to the second record of Luscinia svecica cyanecula for Whisby!

Matthew

I wish Matthew!!

Grahame

I may not have been alone and I had to look up what the academics were talking about! Luscinia svecica cyanecula is the Iberian, Southern France central and eastern European sub species of Bluethroat so now we all know.
Stuart Britton (on behalf of the Plain English Campaign).

Thanks Stuart.

Not having a dig at anyone but it does seem that some seem to forget that we aren't all experts and scholars of ornithology.

Yours dimwittedly
James

How are we to encourage and support our younger and new members when we indulge in such absurd pretences intended to create a pleasant impression. I was always given to understand that Nightingale was Luscinia megarhynchos!

The season of pantomime was 4 months ago lets have no more of this please.


Kind regards


George

I don't think for one moment Graham had wanted to cause any confusion or oneupmanship in his post,just simply excited in having his Nightingales back at Whisby,Graham spends every season plotting the breeding territories and studying this cracking species at the only stronghold for this species left in Lincolnshire.A little over reaction here in my opinion,agreed we all start somewhere and have varying experience but a quick look in an identification guide or google must have taken all of 30 seconds.


Regards,


Steve.

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I really wasn’t going to bother responding to this thread but would like to thank Steve R for his well balanced response and for the record I agree with everything he says.

For those who are interested I’m not long back from Nightingale surveying tonight and we now have five birds back at Whisby. Three of these were new in today and being tired, hungry and probably a bit irritable (bit like me then) they are somewhat skitterish and unsettled. For those thinking of visiting to see and hear Nightingales I would give it a few days to allow them to settle.

And with that I now declare this thread closed.

Thank you.