A nervous looking Long Billed Murrelet...

RSPB Ian has for some time struggled to get registered onto this blog, a technical hitch we will one day solve. Please click on the long-billed murrelet to read of yet another example of the flagrant abuse of our immigration laws that Ian spotted (intended) .
We have come to know and love the short billed murrelet, not as British as your blackbird or robin but a likeable incomer who gets his beak down and is happy to make a contribution. His long billed cousin though has obviously seen our well managed marshes, there's precious little Royal society or protection where he comes from, and thought I'll have a bit of that. He's come over here, a sea bird no less, and thinks he can free load off our rich wetlands when you can see from his bill that he belongs somewhere else. Even his name suggests that he will not come cheap to the bird charities he seeks to abuse. It's not just him though, he'll be the thin end of the beak, pretty soon there'll be flocks of them. Luckily people like Ian watch our shores for just such abuses and appear in their thousands to let these interlopers know they are being watched. A civilized country we do not shoot illegal immigrants (except in season) , but we can make it mighty uncomfortable for them, by standing in silent protest in our thousands these birds know we are onto them, we've marked their card and will not be picking up the bill however long (ok enough now....)