A bird note from a tallship/PatrickO'Brian email list I inhabit:

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The front page story in our local paper today is that a robin has been
sighted in a field in Cornwall. What makes it a story is that it is a
turdus migratorius or American robin. Apparently only 25 have ever been
seen in the UK. There was a male specimen in North Wales earlier this year
and now a female down here in Cornwall.

They think it might be here because of strong north-westerlies and a berry
crop failure in North America.

See: http://tinyurl.com/2rbtr

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Susan Collicott
camel at drizzle.com
Sunset Hill neighborhood, Ballard
Seattle, WA