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.

Friday, May 25, 2007

It's a fair cop

OK, I have to come clean and admit I don't think it was an Ivorybill I heard yesterday in Newtonhill. It was the brakes of the papergirl's bicycle. But, as noted here, the frequencies on the sonagrams don't match exactly anyway, so it wouldn't fool the professional sound guys and gals. So whatever is making all those noises in Florida, we have eliminated the possibility that it was our papergirl's bike. In such incremental steps, science and knowledge move on.