Are You My Mother?

[Jesse Joe]

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Are you my mother?

A young Eurasian Crane eats from a litter picker disguised as an adult crane at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, England yesterday. Staff at WWT Slimbridge will be rearing the chicks using crane costumes and crane heads made out of litter pickers so the birds don't become too accustomed to humans. The Great Crane Project aims to re-establish a breeding population of cranes in Britain, securing its future as a breeding species

[ June 20, 2007, 07:35: Message edited by: Jesse Joe ]

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jesse Joe:


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Are you my mother?

at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, England yesterday. Staff at WWT Slimbridge

Interesting and lovely story Omer because Slimbridge will be well known to most UK fans as
a wonderful wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (a UK charity
near the River Severn in Gloucestershire (Glowsestershire) that was started by a great artist and naturalist called Peter Scott
(the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott) who he? he is known to all UK schoolkids as "Scott of the Antarctic"
"He is also remembered for giving the scientific name of Nessiteras rhombopteryx (based on a blurred underwater photograph of a supposed fin) to the Loch Ness Monster so that it could be registered as an endangered species. The name, based on Greek, means "the wonder of Ness with the diamond shaped fin" but is also an anagram of "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S".LOL
see the wikis at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWT_Slimbridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott

Mandarin Duck at WWT Slimbridge

It just so happens that I am at present wading through a 450+page engrossing biography of my famous novelist namesake,
who was himself a keen natualist, and Peter Scott and his then Severn Wildlife
Trust are mentioned therein

I very much like the title and might adopt it for myself being as how I have now spent the best part of 12 years in the New World
cue sympathy/symphony!!!
I had tried googling for "john fowles slimbridge" and I discovered yet nother namesake who is apparently a councillor on the locality's Stroud District Council. part of the Cotswolds tourist area

[Jesse Joe]

All very interesting John. Whenever I see a story from England, I think of Sir John Fowles.

Even May 11th at The Moncton Coliseum, for the Lightfoot concert, I toured the outdoors of the huge Coliseum to see if I could find anything Lightfoot. We saw at the rear, the big Red 18 wheeler with New-Jersey licence plate. Made me think of John Fowles. Dont know if you read my post on that concert experience.

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...c;f=1;t=004563


Checking Wayne's Site for the concert dates, I saw Lightfoot was in New-Jersey, PA, and New-York, just before coming to Atlantic Canada. So I guessed that 18 wheeler was rented from those places...


http://www.lightfoot.ca/2007.htm


Cheers!

~Jesse~

[ June 29, 2007, 08:15: Message edited by: Jesse Joe ]