We hear far too much about all those top birders who whoosh around the country squashing hedgehogs and polluting the atmosphere. Squirrel-Squashers is what they are. Moth-mashers. Blackbird-bashers. Sparrow-squidgers. Fieldfare-flatteners. Seriously ... what bloody use are they to anybody ? No use at all. Personally, I blame that Lee Evans. If anything, they're worse than useless. " Oh, I'm on 478 !" " You're crap .... I'm on 507 so there ." " 507 ! Shite .... I'm on 512 ... eat that, dogface !" I think we should all look up respectfully to Eve Slane ! She is a bird watcher, and has been all her life. And so far she has spotted 23 species of birds in the UK. Not that she's ever been out of the UK. She's only once been out of Macclesfield. And that was in the back of an ambulance. No ticks available. She's enjoyed every one of those 23 species.. And still does. She only "twitched" something once. Here's the sad sorry tale .... as indeed these things often are .... The lady two doors up called round to let her know there was a Nuthatch on her peanut feeder. She ordered a taxi so Eve could get there in a reasonable time ..... Eve was a bit reluctant at first, but she was persuaded to have a go at it, but when she got there it couldn't be relocated. She enjoyed the tea and jaffa cakes though.. Then she went back to her house in the taxi. Luckily it only had to wait 48 minutes. Quite rightly, she vowed never to waste her precious time and energy dashing off on mad twitches ever again. Quite right too. There are limits you know. She's only "on" 23 ..... but she ain't bothered by that at all. Afterthought.... you know, I can't help feeling there's something strangely familiar about that name ... Eve Slane. Something odd about it.
Surely it can't be .......
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