TN40 The Conference Calls 30 May 2011

The one with ace twitcher and all-round good sport Garry Bagnell where we reveal how well the panel did predicting this spring’s vagrants (the figure 100% comes up!), read part of ‘Spurn’ a short poem by Matt Merritt, talk about our favourite ever twitches, rant about the extraordinary and shocking number of birds killed on Cyprus in 2010, and – of course – talk to Garry about his starring role in the BBC’s ‘Twitchers: A very British Obsession’ programme and THAT t-shirt…

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Show Notes

And your Panel today consists of…

• Me, Charlie Moores, a freelance writer and podcaster (and now sadly intermittent birder) who either lives in a warm little cottage in north Wiltshire with his family or in a cold ‘podding shed’ editing an endless series of podcasts.
• John Hague, a birding psychiatric nurse from Barnsley who now lives in Leicester where he’s a prominent member of the Leicester and Rutland Ornithological Society: John blogs extensively at The Drunkbirder where he rants “about the world and the absurdities of life” and “uses some very strong language“. All good stuff…so get blogging John!
• Tom McKinney, the Derbyshire-based birder and award-winning musician who founded The House of Bedlam and gigs as part of Tango 5, and author of the much-missed Skills Bills blog. Tom now blogs weekly at Birdingblogs.com/TomMcKinney.

Links:

• Garry Bagnell’s blog: Garry Bagnell’s Birding World
• ‘Twtchers: A very British Obsession”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vnflv (no longer available online – let’s start a campaign now!)#
  

• Matt Merritt’s ‘Spurn’ and other poetry can be heard at: www.poetcasting.co.uk/?p=74
• BirdLife Cyprus: http://www.birdlifecyprus.org/
• Dan Rhoad’s blog ‘Migrations’: http://migration.wordpress.com/
• Talking Naturally podcast with Martin Hellicar, Director of BirdLife Cyprus: http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk/tn005-martin-hellicar-birdlife-cyprus/

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