
One year ago today.... Meikle Loch, Aberdeenshire, Barrow's Goldeneye Bucephela islandica. Many thanks to the person whose name I forgot, who put this picture on Surfbirds www.surfbirds.com.
My adventures in the (drum roll)... World of Birds! Clash! As nobody has been asking, I'll explain. George Bristow was a taxidermist at the hub of the Hastings Rarities scandal. From 1896 to 1939, hundreds of rare birds passed through his shop in St Leonards-on-Sea which he claimed were locally killed. They were later shown to be fraudulent. I'd like to think that at the back of his shop was a time machine linked to a freezer in another dimension, full of dead birds. You read it here first.
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