Ultimate tick - consummated

["Mark Roberts" <>]

Hoopoe.  (http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/h/hoopoe/index.asp)

 

Fair Isle.  (http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/)

 

1977, or was it 1978?

 

What a ridiculous place to find a desert-dwelling bird. 

 

Like a big Pink and Black and White butterfly, on a windswept, rainswept, treeless, North Atlantic island north of the mainland of GB between the Orkneys and the Shetlands. 

 

I was 19.  Life has generally been less thrilling since then...

 

Someone banded one there in 1987:  http://www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/ornithology.htm

 

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