OT: Question for anyone who knows about birds of England
Cozit / Liz
Anyway, can anyone out there give me the name of any blue birds in
England? Never occured to me before that the "bluebird" here was only
an American bird... and I'm looking for a bird to embroider onto an
accessory for a Renaissance Festival... so I guess I ought to pick a
bird that's native to England, though I'd like to stick to the main
color being a shade or three of blue.
I can't seem to find any sites to look such a thing up on the web...
Thanks!
-Liz
Cheryl Isaak
<co...@comcast.net> wrote:
There is the blue tit - no I am not kidding!
Cheryl
Anna Begins
> Hmm.. should have been an easier way of putting that....
>
> Anyway, can anyone out there give me the name of any blue birds in
> England? Never occured to me before that the "bluebird" here was only
> an American bird... and I'm looking for a bird to embroider onto an
> accessory for a Renaissance Festival... so I guess I ought to pick a
> bird that's native to England, though I'd like to stick to the main
> color being a shade or three of blue.
>
The jay has vivid blue flashes on it's wings...
If you want to know what a blue tit looks like, my picturetrail site has
a couple of small cross stitched examples. It's still under construction,
so there is no text, although the pictures are labelled.
www.picturetrail.com, user name is annasneedlework - the relevant albums
are Christmas smalls and Miscellaneous Smalls.
The site seems really slow tonight, though...
HTH
--
Anna
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we
can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Rosemary
cross-stitch, charts and then birds from the drop down list the second
picture is of a blue tit. Kit despite using chart button but you could try
e-mailing them because every time I have used them they have been almost
unbelievably helpful. Didn't look further than first couple of pages
because there are a lot of them.
"Cozit / Liz" <co...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Pat Porter
"Anna Begins" <anna....@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3D2DE1DC...@comcast.net>, co...@comcast.net says...
> > Hmm.. should have been an easier way of putting that....
> >
> > Anyway, can anyone out there give me the name of any blue birds in
> > England? Never occured to me before that the "bluebird" here was only
> > an American bird... and I'm looking for a bird to embroider onto an
> > accessory for a Renaissance Festival... so I guess I ought to pick a
> > bird that's native to England, though I'd like to stick to the main
> > color being a shade or three of blue.
> >
> There's blue tits, and great tits...
>
> The jay has vivid blue flashes on it's wings...
>
> If you want to know what a blue tit looks like, my picturetrail site has
> a couple of small cross stitched examples. It's still under construction,
> so there is no text, although the pictures are labelled.
>
> www.picturetrail.com, user name is annasneedlework - the relevant albums
> are Christmas smalls and Miscellaneous Smalls.
>
> The site seems really slow tonight, though...
The site`s been slow all day - took me ages to upload one picture.
Don`t forget pigeons - many have lovely shades of blue and mauve.
Pat P.
Alison
Alison
Trish Brown
>
> In article <3D2DE1DC...@comcast.net>, co...@comcast.net says...
> > Hmm.. should have been an easier way of putting that....
> >
> > Anyway, can anyone out there give me the name of any blue birds in
> > England? Never occured to me before that the "bluebird" here was only
> > an American bird... and I'm looking for a bird to embroider onto an
> > accessory for a Renaissance Festival... so I guess I ought to pick a
> > bird that's native to England, though I'd like to stick to the main
> > color being a shade or three of blue.
> >
> There's blue tits, and great tits...
<snip>
Hnh-hnh-hnh- and there's *Penduline Tits*!!! LOL! ROTFLMAO!!! GUFFAW!!!
I *love* that one!
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Anna
>
> We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we
> can find in our travels is an honest friend.
> - Robert Louis Stevenson
--
Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
emerald
> England?
Several people have already mentioned blue tits.
Lots of Marjolein Bastin's designs feature them:
Birdhouse Artistry;
Four Seasons;
or the little kit I have called "Garden Dweller"
You can see some of them here:
http://www.salt-and-pepper.com/matsLAN.htm
HTH,
E
Sewuni
>> > England? Never occured to me before that the "bluebird" here was only
>> > an American bird... and I'm looking for a bird to embroider onto an
>> > accessory for a Renaissance Festival... so I guess I ought to pick a
>> > bird that's native to England, though I'd like to stick to the main
>> > color being a shade or three of blue.
>> >
>> There's blue tits, and great tits...
>>
>> The jay has vivid blue flashes on it's wings...
>>
>> If you want to know what a blue tit looks like, my picturetrail site has
>> a couple of small cross stitched examples. It's still under construction,
>> so there is no text, although the pictures are labelled.
Oh no not the infamous blue tits again =) <GDR>
Jennifer
s ew un i a t a o l d o t c o m
WIPs: Precious Moments "Because You Count"; two Memorial Flag squares;
Stephen King "Misery" converted from book art; Mirabilia "Lady of the Flag"
Karen C - California
I would assume are English birds, since it's an English magazine. If you're
interested, I can get you the issue numbers and send scans of the photos so you
can decide which charts are worth buying.
--
Finished 7/5/02 - "Footprints"
WIP: Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe, Guide the Hands (2d
one)
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Pat Porter
"Sewuni" wrote: There's blue tits, and great tits...
> >>
> >> The jay has vivid blue flashes on it's wings...
> >>
> >> If you want to know what a blue tit looks like, my picturetrail site
has
> >> a couple of small cross stitched examples. It's still under
construction,
> >> so there is no text, although the pictures are labelled.
>
>
>
> Oh no not the infamous blue tits again =) <GDR>
>
>
> Jennifer
Reminds me of the joke during the war.
"10 WRNS" (Wrens) "went swimming on a cold day - what came out?"
"20 blue tits".
I love these cute little birds, but wish they were better known by their
original name of "titmice".
Pat P.
Cheryl Isaak
QztX8.38$SM5....@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net, "Pat Porter"
<pat.p...@Attilantlworld.com> wrote:
I have to admit the first time I heard 'blue tits' it was the sound of David
Attenborough plummy voice, just sent me over the edge.
Titmice also has it's problems..... Where do they live? In old bras?
Cheryl
Pat Porter
"Cheryl Isaak" <chery...@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> On 7/12/02 1:17 AM, in article
> QztX8.38$SM5....@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net, "Pat Porter"
> <pat.p...@Attilantlworld.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Sewuni" wrote: There's blue tits, and great tits...
> > I love these cute little birds, but wish they were better known by their
> > original name of "titmice".
> >
> > Pat P.
> >
> I have to admit the first time I heard 'blue tits' it was the sound of
David
> Attenborough plummy voice, just sent me over the edge.
>
> Titmice also has it's problems..... Where do they live? In old bras?
> Cheryl
Maybe old cups? I often lie in bed watching them (the birds) on the peanut
holder just outside the window - occasionally I yell out to DH "There`s a
Great Tit looking in the window!" Always guaranteed to bring him running
saying "Cor! Where!!!" The mind boggles!
Pat P.
Karen C - California
<pat.p...@Attilantlworld.com> writes:
>"There`s a
>Great Tit looking in the window!"
Can't be any worse than the tour guides at the Grand Tetons National Park
pointing out the English meaning of the French name......
Cozit / Liz
Karen C - California wrote:
> In article <HhzX8.716$SM5....@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net>, "Pat Porter"
> <pat.p...@Attilantlworld.com> writes:
>
>
>>"There`s a
>>Great Tit looking in the window!"
>
>
> Can't be any worse than the tour guides at the Grand Tetons National Park
> pointing out the English meaning of the French name......
*G* I can "go one better"... A trip I took with a vocal group in the 80s
included our "tour guide" who, like our bus driver, was from Yugoslavia
(yeah, it's been a while). She told us many stories that included tales
of the "Ta-Tas" sweeping into the valley and invading... and then
rushing back... etc. (Yes, Tartars for those who couldn't figure it out)
And yes, it seemed like everywhere we travelled in Yugoslavia, Hungary
and Austria there was another story about the "Ta-tas" and the Huns.
We also got to tease her a lot that there were a Pizza Inn and a Pizza
Out chain here in the US.... Apparently you need to be quite careful how
you pronounce the word Pizza... because it can mean something quite
different (in Italian maybe??) if you draw out the 'i' sound....
-Liz
Cozit / Liz
kingfisher is just too much of a hunter for this particular project..)
Now I just have to find a couple *good* pictures of a male, so I can
figure out the colors a bit better...
Thanks for the pointers to charts, but this is one I'm going to have to
do in long and short, split, chain, or something along those lines. So
I'm going to have to do the drawing then stitching in thing.
Anyone seen any decent sized photos out there on the web I could use?
I'm going to check the library tomorrow.
-Liz
Rosemary
page, birds eye view on left, All Birds, go to page 3 and No.11 is blue tit.
A couple more buttons there, one of which gives a slightly clearer picture.
Mind you the picture strikes one as green mainly but, in the flesh so to
speak, the immediate impression is blue because of the head and when they
open their wings they are quite bright blue.news:3D2F3734...@comcast.net...
Cozit / Liz
Now all I need to do is figure out what colors I'm using... and DMC or
Needlepoint Silks...
-Liz
Anna Begins
Liz - How big do you want this to be? I think somewhere I have a design
in embroidery for a blue tit, with a sprig of blossom that came from
Needlecraft magazine...
Cozit / Liz
were reasonable. Unfortunately (because I can't draw, and don't really
enjoy the crewel-type work so much, I have to do this one drawn, and
filled in with either a long-short type stitch, or chain, or other
really old filling stitch (and for this period and project type even the
period cross stitches wouldn't be quite right).
Though if the pattern offered is a drawn outline, *please* let me know
what issue, so I can get a copy. After all, if I have (and own) the
pattern, I can always adjust it to size.
Thanks for the offer, though!
-Liz