George Bristow's Secret Freezer

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.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The Doctor is OUT, again

I'm at a meeting in Dundee, the city that never sleeps, until Friday. I confidently predict an enormous fall of interesting passerines on Thursday. And for that pelican to be reidentified from photos as a White-throated Robin. Then I'll have to decide whether I can tick it.

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