We've Been Saying This All Along: Slicers And Dicers Have No Redeeming Value

FoxNews is reporting from Scotland:

There hasn’t been a sighting of a White-throated Needletail in the United Kingdom for 22 years, so nearly 80 birdwatchers flocked to Scotland this week to get a look, the Telegraph reported.  But instead of enjoying the world’s fastest flying bird soaring, they watched it fly into the small blade of a wind turbine and die.

"It was seen by birders fly straight into the turbine. It is ironic that after waiting so long for this bird to turn up in the UK, it was killed by a wind turbine and not a natural predator, “ Josh Jones of Bird Guides said.

The Needletail was apparently thousands of miles off course when two bird spotters identified it on the isle of Harris Monday. By Wednesday, scores of watchers had gathered in the Tarbet area of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland to catch a glimpse of the rare bird.     

But at least they got to see the bird.

Had the poor bird not been so far off course it would not have flown into this wind turbine.

Just another wind turbine elsewhere. 

And so it goes.

[A huge "thank you" to a reader for sending me this link. I would have missed it.]

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On a more pleasant note, we all raced out to watch our older granddaughter go boogie-boarding off the coast of southern California.

And then she got eaten by a shark.  Just kidding.

She is an expert swimmer. She will go far out into the surf and swim with the dolphins. She is a southern California girl through and through.

Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys