Tuesday, June 01, 2010

I liked this

this sums up the joy of birding as well as anything I've come across.

2 comments:

tom s. said...

It's very evocative, but what's the bird? And is the one he writes about the one in the picture?

DorsetDipper said...

It's a Trumpeter Finch, and yes it is the one in the picture.

Its a rare bird for the UK and has just turned up in Norfolk, presumably discovered by Joe, so its arrival is widely known amongst the UK's few thousand birders.

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