Celebrating a Waxwing Winter
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2024
A bird ringed near Helsinki, Finland, in October 1970 was found dead, 18 days later, in the Scottish west-coast town of Stranraer, a distance of 1,800km and a minimum speed of 100km per day. At the time I was writing about cars, so I recall we travelled in a road-test Porsche. A young friend, David Tipling, travelled with me from Kent.
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