This is massive....

[st_files]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8322447.st...

There's something very British about these birders...for some reason that article really made me chuckle.

Thats all.

[TheEnd]

"Within minutes of the discovery last night pagers were going into overdrive and my phone has never stopped since."


pagers? surely some mistake.
Most of the calls he'd have been getting are "why the hell are you paging me with this crap"

[Tomlev40]

"News quickly spread on internet message boards after a photo of the bird was posted on Thursday night"
Sounds like a big prank to me.

[johnbaz]

HA HA HA!!

twitchers are a strange breed- they'll drop everything when there's a rare sighting (yes, they do actually page each other to pass on info!!)



john

[shirt]

Tomlev40 said:

"News quickly spread on internet message boards after a photo of the bird was posted on Thursday night"
Sounds like a big prank to me.

now there's an idea!

[big dub]

Central!!

Your topic has arrived

[central]

[bimsb6]

"It is believed the bird landed in the quarry after becoming disorientated for some reason."



no st its from asia ! how disorientated can a bird get .

[Neil_H]

TheEnd said:

"Within minutes of the discovery last night pagers were going into overdrive and my phone has never stopped since."


pagers? surely some mistake.
Most of the calls he'd have been getting are "why the hell are you paging me with this crap"

I imagine most of the pager messages were "why the fk do you still have a pager, don't you know it's 2009 you birdy tt?".

[tonyvid]

Blimey - this is why I will never make a twitcher, if I saw that I would think "yellow browed" and move on

[st_files]

It just looks like a sparrow to me.....

[central]

Pics -
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.c...

[tonyvid]

central said:

Pics -
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.c...

That's funny, they said the same as me about it looking like a yellow browed - maybe there is hope!


I'm still very happy about almost tripping over the Cambs Glossy Ibis

[EDLT]

What do they taste like?

[ShadownINja]

bimsb6 said:

"It is believed the bird landed in the quarry after becoming disorientated for some reason."



no st its from asia ! how disorientated can a bird get .

Yep, it's certainly far away from the orient.

[J-c]

So a bird got lost? it is not the first time is it

[Pints]

Paul Cook from Whitburn near South Shields said:

There has been nothing like this in Britain before. This is massive.

Looks like a small bird to me.

[central]

Seen again this morning.

[B19GRR]

central said:

Pics -
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.c...

Most disappointing web site address ever!