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So why the Shat Birder?
I got a bit of stick for calling my blog The Shat Birder and contrary to the jibes it is not a description! Shat is actually (believe it or not) the local name for the village in which I have lived all my life, Skelmanthorpe.
Skelmanthorpe is on the outskirts of Huddersfield and in the 1870’s during the construction of the railway line (which is now Kirklees Light Railway), local unskilled labourers were drafted in to chip away at the rock that would later carve out Shelley Tunnel. These local lads were nicknamed stone “Shatterers” by the Irish navvies who had been employed to lay the line. The taunting from these “foreigners” actually ended in a 200 man mass brawl, which saw one of the Irish workers getting part of his ear bitten off! It was this incident that coined the phrase “Shat lug oyl biter” which when translated from broad Yorkshire is basically “Skelmanthorpe Ear Hole Nibbler”. Since then though, nearly 140 years on, Skelmanthorpe is still known as Shat! And all its inhabitants by the abbreviated “Shatters”!
Skelmanthorpe is on the outskirts of Huddersfield and in the 1870’s during the construction of the railway line (which is now Kirklees Light Railway), local unskilled labourers were drafted in to chip away at the rock that would later carve out Shelley Tunnel. These local lads were nicknamed stone “Shatterers” by the Irish navvies who had been employed to lay the line. The taunting from these “foreigners” actually ended in a 200 man mass brawl, which saw one of the Irish workers getting part of his ear bitten off! It was this incident that coined the phrase “Shat lug oyl biter” which when translated from broad Yorkshire is basically “Skelmanthorpe Ear Hole Nibbler”. Since then though, nearly 140 years on, Skelmanthorpe is still known as Shat! And all its inhabitants by the abbreviated “Shatters”!
2013 List
- 60 Great Spotted Woodpecker
- 59 European Greenfinch
- 58 Fieldfare
- 57 Yellow Legged Gull
- 56 Lesser Black backed Gull
- 55 Egyptian Goose
- 54 Long Tailed Tit
- 53 Great Tit
- 52 Common Chaffinch
- 51 Common Gull
- 50 Long Tailed Duck
- 49 Caspian Gull
- 48 Greater Scaup
- 47 Common Snipe
- 46 Great Crested Grebe
- 45 Common Teal
- 44 Common Pochard
- 43 Common Moorhen
- 42 Mallard
- 41 Gadwall
- 40 Northern Lapwing
- 39 Pied Wagtail
- 38 European Green Woodpecker
- 37 Goosander
- 36 Eurasian Bullfinch
- 35 Little Grebe
- 34 Eurasian Wigeon
- 33 Common Goldeneye
- 32 Dunnock
- 31 Mute Swan
- 30 Tufted Duck
- 29 Eurasian Coot
- 28 Canada Goose
- 27 Common Pheasant
- 26 Pink Footed Goose
- 25 Coal Tit
- 24 European Goldfinch
- 23 Mistle Thrush
- 22 Collared Dove
- 21 European Robin
- 20 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- 19 Grey Heron
- 18 Rook
- 17 Eurasian Jay
- 16 Song Thrush
- 15 Common Kestrel
- 14 House Sparrow
- 13 Common Blackbird
- 12 Blue Tit
- 11 Western Jackdaw
- 10 Common Ringed Plover
- 9 Great Black Backed Gull
- 8 Common Magpie
- 7 Carrion Crow
- 6 Great Cormorant
- 5 Common Starling
- 4 Black Headed Gull
- 3 Rock Pipit
- 2 Common Wood Pigeon
- 1 Herring Gull
Links
- Avian Science
- Barnsley Bird Sightings
- Bird Cinema
- Birdguides
- Birding Frontiers
- Bluebirder Blog
- British Birding Association
- British Trust for Ornithology
- Bungling Birder Blog
- Filey Brigg Ornithological Group
- Huddersfield Birdwatchers Club
- Huddsbirder
- In Focus
- Jeffrey Lynn Davis Images
- Kirklees Light Railway
- Natural England
- Natural History Bookstore
- Rare Birds in Britain
- RSPB
- Sheffield Bird Study Group
- Spurn Bird Observatory
- Surfbirds
- Swillington Ings Bird Group
- The Fat Birder
- UK 400 Club
- Yorkshire Art Photography
- Yorkshire Birding
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
I like the vole pic, nice shot. I also found the "Shat" info great!
ReplyDeleteCheers Richard, never sat as still in my life waiting for the vole! They come out underneath my bird feeders, can't tell you how many photos of voles tails I have ha ha. They're normally too fast for me!
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