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Saw a flock of Geese heading south today

Sep 16, 2015 1:58PM PDT

just sayin'

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Sure it wasn't the band...
Sep 16, 2015 2:04PM PDT

... A Flock of Seagulls?
Dafydd.

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Oh dear...the "birders" of the world who read this
Sep 16, 2015 2:35PM PDT

will shriek in horror.

http://www.birds-of-north-america.net/gulls.html

There is no such species as a seagull. I've only found that out in past couple of years. I see ring billed gulls in shopping center parking lots looking for discarded fast food containers and asked a birder what seagulls were doing this far in land. I got educated that day.

As for geese, we have invasions of Canada types every year. For some reason they are a protected species so we're not permitted to run over them as they slowly amble over the thoroughfares during rush hour. Honk at them and they just honk back.

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Back in '82...
Sep 16, 2015 2:44PM PDT

..the band wasn't called A Flock of 'Gulls.
Dafydd.
Typo edit.

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Ok...I get it
Sep 16, 2015 3:01PM PDT

The group wasn't schooled in ornithology. I found them on youtube and I'm not sure they were schooled in music either. Happy

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And the getups!
Sep 16, 2015 3:09PM PDT

I was 27 in '82 and never dressed like that, the hairdos too.
Dafydd.

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me too
Sep 16, 2015 3:14PM PDT

27 in '82.
I have the album buried somewhere, didn't like it than and after watching Youtube , I don't like them now lol

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You bought the album?
Sep 16, 2015 3:26PM PDT

I can't remember buying any music in the '80s. There were a few songs I liked but not enough to break into a shilling.
Dafydd.

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They show as "new wave" and "synthpop" genre
Sep 16, 2015 4:52PM PDT

My brain can't imagine what that is. That era also saw The Pogues and the genre of "punk". I didn't get into any of that. I think, in the '80s, I was more interested in "bluegrass" and other forms of Appalachian folk. Some folks referred to it as "hillbilly music" but I thought it was a great when compared to where American rock was going. The instruments and tunes were modelled after or mimicked traditional Celtic styles as those were the folks who settled in the Appalachian mountains. I buy very little music these days and anything I do was probably recorded 20 or more years ago.

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I grew up
Sep 16, 2015 5:06PM PDT

listening to the AM country station but when Dad was at worked we'd listen to the local AM rock stations . Mom would play some Ray Charles or Mahalia Jackson records. Than Dad would come home and after dinner we watched Hee Haw or the Grand Ol' Opera .
So now I can enjoy a lot of different music but, never punk or rap and I really don't like reggae

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Yeah...back in the day when singers could sing
Sep 17, 2015 2:08AM PDT

and didn't sound like they were either operating a jackhammer or having an enema at the same time. Happy You could understand the words and there was either a story or emotion relevant to ones time in life.

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Heard them squaking last night
Sep 16, 2015 2:28PM PDT

but if turns out like the last El Nino winter ,the geese stayed as there wasn't really any snow cover . Plenty of open fields and open water here in Chicago