Bird Quiz

[jillie]

Answers are birds

1 Quiet Romeo

2 Begin

3 268th Christmas present from my true love

4 A product of Plough Lane, Hereford

Many thanks

[megellan]

1.
Could it be Plover P (lover)

[paddywak]

Redstart (the Begin is printed in Red)

[mazie]

They make "Woodpecker" cider at Plough Lane, I believe

[logophile]

3. Presents 266 to 271 on the eleventh day were geese (a-laying)

[kettledrum]

3. It's a question of adding up all the gifts from "A Partridge in a pear tree"
Day 1 - 1 partridge (1st present)
Day 2 - 2 turtle doves (2nd & 3rd presents) + 1 partridge (4th)

I'll leave you to do the maths!

[jillie]

Many thanks for that - the Maths will keep me quiet for a while!

[smouse]

I could kiss you logophile - at last someone agrees with me that its a goose!
Hope you're reading this my doubting thomases

[doogied]

jillie, did you understand the answer to the question about the Christmas present? I can''t get it at all and would appreciate some help. Thanks!

[doogied]

Sorry! I've just managed to work it out for myself. Thanx anyway.