Birdwatchers rushed to see a wild bird that hasn’t been seen in Britain for over 20 years. The sighting took place near Stockport, Greater Manchester. The Twitchers, (people who stalk birds) as they are called, had been watching and twitching at the greater yellow rumped swallow for 20 minutes when all hell broke out at the scene.
“I was watching the graceful little swallow through my specialist all terrain combat binoculars when the swallow landed on a TV aerial of a council house. All of a sudden this little bleeder of a sparrow hawk came out of nowhere, swooped down and ate the Yellow Rumped Swallow right in front of our eyes.” Group member Mike Sprigget confirmed.
“We were horrified. We had only telephoned other enthusiasts to come and see the swallow, and then had to call them back to say it had been eaten by an f’n sparrow hawk. It’s terrible the amount of money wasted on phone calls just because of some lazy b’stard sparrow hawk who couldn’t be arsed to go and get his food somewhere else.” Andy Green, fellow twitcher stated at the scene.
The yellow rumped swallow isn’t normally seen any further than North America.
An RSPCA spokesman added: “Sadly it’s just one of those things. Last week we had a call about a Gorilla who dressed up as a New York policeman and was found trying to bum a George Michael look-a-like on Hampstead Heath, these things happen.”
When we asked the group of twitchers what happened immediately after the attack Mike Sprigget replied, “We killed the little toe rag didn’t we, after all who was going to pay our mobile phone bills. I have his head on a biro pen in my car if you want to see it?” We declined his offer and reported him to the Bill Oddie Foundation for cruelty to endangered birds.
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