Twit

We might have seen some interesting crows on the Isle of Wight (see 19th July) but we completely failed to twit this serious tweet, a seriously rare bee-eater. Should have been a Medal of Honour job from the Epsom Branch of the RSPB.

The National Trust is being a little coy about exactly where the family that this chap is feeding is nesting, beyond the nest being in a burrow in the sand somewhere near St. Catherine's Point. To think that we were only a couple of miles up the road at Ventnor Botanic Garden (see 17th July) and didn't know to go the extra mile.

But it might have been a waste of time. The  RSPB volunteers (the 16th Shanklin troop cover this area) might already have rolled the barbed wire out by then.

PS: common as muck in their proper homes. For example, Carthage and Utica. Probably Gaza.