A Prologue to the Unborn, Like Yeast We Rise, The Oroonies
oh go on then:
The Woods are Alive with the Smell of his Coming, The Oroonies
Cloven Foot, The Oroonies
Just a few last thoughts on the "Scaup".
1. A Lesser Scaup hybrid can't be ruled out and there are some interesting, although brief, thoughts on this in the recent Birds of Sussex compendium P.123 by J & D Cooper.
2. This happened in 1961, courtesy British Birds, but no shooting please!
"British ornithologists became divided on the matter, many still believing that it was a Lesser Scaup, but some considering it to be probably a hybrid. As opinions differed so widely, it was eventually decided to obtain a permit to collect it. It was shot on 3rd March 1960, under a licence issued to Dr. I. C. T . Nisbet by the Nature Conservancy. Comparison with live specimens at Slimbridge and with museum material at Oxford then confirmed the belief that it was not a Lesser Scaup."
"Scaup", the original version:
