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The Age
Saturday June 2, 2007
Be careful when hurling around the term "birdwatcher" to your nature-loving friends. It has come to my attention that calling someone a birdwatcher could be as offensive as calling an interior designer a decorator. Or a retail manager a shopkeeper. Apparently, birdwatchers are the amateur, backyard version of your more serious birder. And then there is the twitcher - like an addict always on the chase, like Burt Reynolds adding notches to his bedpost, the twitcher lists rare sightings and competes with other twitchers in this mysterious world of stealth and inner-sanctum knowledge. It is little wonder that many spies and private detectives are twitchers and birders, creeping around dressed up as shrubs. You can see the similarities. Bill Oddie (the funniest and scruffiest of the Goodies) and Jimmy Carter were both twitchers. I'm sure if either of them saw this budgie brooch in the wild they'd be twitching with delight. And then slightly confused as to why it wasn't moving.
Les Bijoux De Sophie ceramic and sterling silver parrot brooch, $245, from Order and Progress, Level 3, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street, city, 9654 1329, orderandprogress.com.auFor daily fashion and weather forecasts: michigirl.com.au
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