I wrote a while ago about that prediction that even a 1° rise in global temperatures could lead to a massive rise in sea level ...maybe 60 metres ...or was it 60 mm ? Or 60 miles ? Or 60 feet ? Or 60 Å ? And I pointed out that this would mean that sea-watching would be much more accessible to people in what used to be the Midlands . Bonus ! That's not the only brilliant thing about it though .. oh no. Surely the rise in temperature here in the soggy, dark, gloomy, cold, icy, snowy,windy, perishing Flintshire weather would be , to put it mildly, very welcome PLUS ... surely ,eventually, those lovely brightly-coloured birds from less wintry climes would start enhancing our birding experience. Trogons ! Peewees ! Anis ! If only we warmed up a bit Our birding would be ace not shit Trogons, Parakeets and such Would turn our rubbish into much more interesting sorts of birds described in such exciting words Resplendent Quetzal ! White-naped Lory ! Wood-hoopoes in all their glory Mrs. Morden's Scops-Owl too and the Tropical Bou-bou Yellow-mantled Widowbird (That's Euplectes macrocurus) Rarely seen but often heard. Hawks, Broad-winged and Ferruginous would be skimming all aroundous and Ovenbirds and Chuck-wills-widows flying past our kitchen windows whilst the brazen Caracara eats a passing Chachalaca and the local Smooth-billed Ani snoozes in the Frangipani while Bewick's Wrens and Sparrows ( Chipping) slowly in the heat are slipping into their usual midday naps As we, exhausted, then collapse. But then, I think we soon would see It wasn't all it's cracked up to be They produce some crap prediction But we know it's mostly fiction. Here's the impressive, non-fictional Bonnie "Prince" Billy with " Blindlessness."
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