The robin is poised to become Britain's national bird
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Are you really going to dictate to your QUEEN - your Head of State - what she can and cannot wear?
She'll just laugh at you and then dissolve her whole Canadian government.
It's the law
hahaha... No one here has taken her seriously in that capacity for many, many years.
To be fair to the Brits, nobody over there takes her seriously in that capacity either. Except Blackleaf and his tiny band of cheerfully delusional Little Englanders.
Only if the Queen herself allows it to be.
They will take her seriously if she ever sees fit to dissolve HER Canadian government, for whatever reason.
I'm a Little Englander, am I?
So that means I oppose Britain's military adventures abroad and I oppose the expansion of the British Empire.
Funnily enough, the Little Englander movement originally started in the 19th Century as an anti-Canadain movement, by Manchester manufacturers who objected to the protectionist stance of Canada exemplified by the tariff increase of 1859. They resented paying taxes to defend a colony that took few British goods, when it could be absorbed by the United States which was an independent country and their best customer outside Europe.
He's Welsh. If you like, you could call Daffyd a Little Welsher.
No, it means you have visions of an England that never was, and feel that you can get it "back" if only you brutalise enough people.
No. It means I oppose Britain's military adventures abroad and I oppose the expansion of the British Empire. That's what a Little Englander is.
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Most of us do. We love the Queen. Have you seen what her popularity ratings are?
Again, I'd love to see the Canadians try to introduce a law which dictates what the Queen can and cannot wear in Canada. Because, of course, laws can only come into effect in Canada with the assent of the Queen herself.
Most American bald eagles live in Canada. I see them every day, redtails as well and ospreys. Yes the beaver should be made Canadas national bird.
They actually cover all Canada, all of the United States except Hawaii, and much of Mexico. It's debatable whether most do live in Canada.
I loved studying birds as a kid. Got to learn a lot of their different sounds. And it's rather smugly comforting when you're out in nature and you know what it is you're hearing without having to actually see them. Like one time late one February, when I'd noticed the earliest robin ever... by its sound; 2 days later came the visual confirmation that I hadn't been 'hearing things'.
It's an ongoing education, the more you're out in nature, the more you're learning about it, that is, if you have ears to hear and eyes to see, as some people seem quite oblivious to it.
It's an ongoing education, the more you're out in nature, the more you're learning about it, that is, if you have ears to hear and eyes to see, as some people seem quite oblivious to it.
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It's like being bald and getting the short straw all at the same time and all the time.
I don't recall seeing very many of these outside of the forested areas, they fly in pairs as they mate for life.
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It's like being bald and getting the short straw all at the same time and all the time.
I don't recall seeing very many of these outside of the forested areas, they fly in pairs as they mate for life.
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A Eurasian eagle-owl, Gloucestershire. It is Britain's biggest species of owl and the second-biggest in the world.
Nothing beats the glorious British birdsong on a glorious spring or summer's morning.
Nothing beats the glorious British birdsong on a glorious spring or summer's morning.
