On 19 Dec 2004 at 21:21, Bob W wrote: > The most surprising exotic creature I've seen in the UK was a wild > penguin. Last year on Chesil Beach in Dorset I saw a bird swimming > very quickly through the waves, chasing a fish. From my vast experience > of penguins in S. Africa I identified it immediately. I was rather taken > aback to see one so far north, so when I got home I went through my Observer > Book of Birds (or whatever), and learned that it was in fact a guillemot, > which > is not at all exotic (although I've never seen one in London, whereas I have > seen penguins). Still, those things are pretty good examples of convergent > evolution.
My friends Guillemot, taken with a Pentax of course :-) http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/gallery/Lyall-Bogie Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
