Twite the birds to the east of the Pennine hills move to the southeast coast in winter and those to the west winter between Lancashire and the Hebrides. The Welsh population winters almost exclusively in Flintshire. In 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the twite in the 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae" under the binomial name "Fringilla flavirostris". The genus name "linaria" is the Latin for a linen-weaver, from "linum", "flax" and "flavirostris" means yellow-billed. The twite and the closely related linnets were at one time placed in the genus "Carduelis" but were moved to a separate genus "Linaria"
There's a Kind of Hush There's a Kind of Hush "There's a Kind of Hush" is a popular song written by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens which was a hit in 1967 for Herman's Hermits and again in 1976 for The Carpenters. The song was introduced on the 1966 album "Winchester Cathedral" by Geoff Stephens' group the New Vaudeville Band; like that group's hit "Winchester Cathedral", "There's a Kind of Hush" was conceived as a neo-British music hall number although it is a less overt example of that style. The first single version of "There's a Kind of Hush" was recorded in 1966 by Gary