A small aside in a recent blogpost has taken on a bigger meaning with the passage of time and the subject being discovered by social media. Do you remember the sighting of the blue and yellow macaw from the day we moved to Stromness? We occasionally saw it again over the next few weeks, but then Blu (as he's known) seems to have found a publicity agent.
Here's a link to BBC Radio Orkney's Facebook page:
And the subsequent interview on one of their morning news bulletins:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001q4gf
Then, Blu hit the big time with the main BBC News webpage, after inadvertently interrupting a football match and turning around the local side's fortunes:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66615132
You could not, as they say, make it up.
Unbelievable!!!
ReplyDeleteBetween matches, the pitch is a foraging spot for rooks, wood pigeons, oystercatchers and several species of gull, but I think it's fair to say that incursion by macaw would not have featured in the pre-match briefing.
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