Halfwit 'creationists' are fond of dismissing Darwin's theory of evolution with the phrase 'it's only a theory', as if that were good enough justification for taking everything in the Bible at face value. Well maybe they're right and it's actually God who makes rare birds turn up in Shetland, as the 'theory' that south-easterly winds = good birds has been proved to be false (or at least an over-simplification) today.
It was south-easterly when we got up this morning, and it's still south-easterly now, but despite thrashing the Toab/Scatness/Sumburgh area to within an inch of its life all day, absolutely fuck-nothing new has been unearthed. There was a brief scare with a report of a Lancy in Toab early afternoon, but that turned out to be someone jumping the gun as it was later re-identified as a Gropper. It was nothing to do with us, by the way!
Perhaps some rain will help, in which case tomorrow could be the day, as it's forecast to be strong south-easterly and wet overnight and for most of tomorrow.
It was south-easterly when we got up this morning, and it's still south-easterly now, but despite thrashing the Toab/Scatness/Sumburgh area to within an inch of its life all day, absolutely fuck-nothing new has been unearthed. There was a brief scare with a report of a Lancy in Toab early afternoon, but that turned out to be someone jumping the gun as it was later re-identified as a Gropper. It was nothing to do with us, by the way!
Perhaps some rain will help, in which case tomorrow could be the day, as it's forecast to be strong south-easterly and wet overnight and for most of tomorrow.
Never mind – here's a nice photo of a Snow Bunting at Sumburgh Head:
And we're having a consolation Chinese takeaway tonight – one of the restaurants in Lerwick is doing a 'Chinese night' at Boddam village hall, so we've put our order in.
6 comments:
Enjoy your chinese - it will probably be the nearest thing to something from the far east you're going to see whilst up there ;-)
Haha - you may well be right Mark!
When are you 'off' shets Andy?...just before..or just after the sib blue robin appears?
ps...glad to hear it wasn't you with the 'egg pie' in face over a gropper....!
We're here till next Wednesday (14th).
Plenty o time then...that's good.
ps...i see 'pies' Mark is shamelessly putting clicky linky things on turdforum in order to get more 'hits'...how low can you get..?[chuckle]...lower the better i say..! Wouldn't be surprised if he put an animated card cut-out of a rare in front o his web-cam...[there's an idea]..!
pps...perhaps if you put 'sexual' words all over yer blog that will get your fatbirder count up...[that or actually find a sib blue robin...hope you do]...good hunting...
There was a fluffy toy bird (possibly a Wren?) showing well on the cam earlier, but it's gone to roost now.
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