Parian in origin: Siblings have uses.

November 07, 2005

Siblings have uses.

Siblings...occaisionally...very occasionally...do have worthwile benefits!
On saturday myself and H.H. went gulling, prompted by the massive influx of haha gulls and franklins gulls into britain.
It was a dismal day with little other than 20 or so Med gulls...at 3.30 pm my brother rang me.

The beast: "can you spell white billed diver?"

Me: .......what?you are jokin?

The beast: no.Ive just found one off skerries.

Me: you Jammy £*&K.You dirty B&£("%*....ok gimme the details.

Myself, Andre, Ciaran and Harry left Cork at 3am and were on site for first light.
After looking at a few great northerns i picked the bird up flying in from about 1 mile out. As the bird came in i could start to see detail on the bill and sure enough it was a fabulous summer plumaged white billed diver!
After some dissention in the ranks as to wether i was correct in my identification of the bird, the light improved and the bird just got better and better.
We left after an hour and went to the north bull island to tick blue winged teal. The bird was found very quickly bt Andre and gave great views.
It was really more attractive than i had expected of this species and plumage and i was most impressed.
A great day all in all.
Nice one bro!

Owen