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Great Tit (Parus major)
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6
f/6.3, 1/500s, ISO 500, 500mm Cambridgeshire 2019
The largest Tit species found in the UK, its range covers almost the whole of the mainland, apart from the highest parts of the the Scottish highlands.
It can be a bit of a bully and I see it on our bird feeders pushing off other species including Starlings, which takes some doing!
It has a distinctive call that sounds very much like Teacher! Teacher!
I like the sound of the word dremples. It is a bit like our word dimples, but that is the physical opposite of bump, rather it means a pit or depression.
Is Achtung Dutch also, I know it from the German, I assume it means the same e.g Attention!
I see you like cycling, it makes sense Attention! (Speed) Bumps! ๐
A German friend actually saved my life with that word. I was about to step out in front of a fast moving car that was going the wrong way down a one way road. He yelled Achtung! I looked around to see why he had suddenly spoken German when we had been speaking English and my foot, that was in mid-step off the pavement, scraped down the side of the car. It didn't stop and I was left a bit stunned to say the least!
No yeah, achtung is german, the dutch "let op drempels" was already taken on reddit so i made it achtung, then transferred it over to lemmy. "Let op drempels" is one of, or maybe even the most known dutch phrase in germany, and i feel everybody also thinks it's a bit funny.
Glad the achtung shout out worked out and you live to post us some fantastic bird pictures :)