On one of many better-known social media websites somebody lately posted photographs of a Rose-coloured Starling ‘someplace in Norfolk’. They declined to disclose its location which, to me, begs the query: why put up within the first place? Absolutely a greater technique would have been to have proven the photographs privately to some buddies – or maintain it quiet. Lee Evans (fairly rightly, for my part) gave the placement of the chook – in a small village north of Aylsham – in a response to the preliminary put up. Let’s be trustworthy: a RCS isn’t going to create an enormous twitch, significantly given the present climate situations: it is not even remotely as ‘fascinating’ as a scarlet Tanager or Oriental Turtle Dove. Latest curiosity within the very tame Hoopoe in North Walsham did not appear to create issues with locals, lots of whom appeared very eager to talk with the small crowd of birders it attracted… (The photograph beneath is of the confiding chook at Wells Quay a couple of years again)
