Nomenclature

[Yournamehere]

Funny old world and all that.

 

[1] Had been strimming the f - what's your swear policy here? at my usual it's encouraged as long as it's inventive:001_smile: much fun. Any way I was blatting some greenery to bits down by a lake that I fish at with a strimmer - spelt of parsley - not the strimmer, the greenery - but was ovs not cow-parsley - more succulent watery even. Got home looked it up - looked in another book - and another - looked online - still trying to convince myself it might have been something other than hemlock water dropwort - and failing. Thankfully had lots of ppe on.

But made some notes and carried on.

 

[2] Just the other day I noticed I had the Hamlyn book of trees, the Hamlyn book of wild-flowers but not the Hamlyn book of birds in amongst a somewhat extensive shelf-full of I.D. books collected since childhood; so had ordered a copy off e-bay which arrived yesterday and being stuck home today was looking through it when I noticed the wheatears.

 

Why? You may ask

 

 

 

 

well go on then

 

 

 

 

<mumbled 'ok, why?' from back of arbtalk forum>

 

 

 

 

Cos the water dropworts are Oenanthe sp. eg hemlock water dropwort is Oenanthe crocata.

And the wheatears are Oenanthe sp. also. eg 'ordinary' wheatear is Oenanthe oenanthe.

And if either of these two events had happened at any other time I wouldnot have been able to connect the two.

 

And that is why I posted this little tale in this particular thread!

Happy Days

YNH

[Yournamehere]

PS re^ Sorry martwiz, i should have read the thread through first - just the first page might have helped!