'Saw this while out climbing last week - what is it?'

Eeek! Apart from being a bloody Wallcreeper. Argh! Where were you climbing? Switzerland! Phew!
Still jealous though. Not an easy bird to see and photograph.
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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Feck! Is that guy even a birder? I've been to Les Baux and still not managed to see one!!
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Annoying, but no, he isn't a birder. What makes it worse is that there were three of them!
Ah, there's no justice at times, like how the people who had the first UK Red-billed Tropicbird weren't birders either, and how some local children here were shown the 1998 Hermit Thrush...which I missed and is still a sore point!
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