Craniology

Encouraging news from Somerset with the story that the Common Crane re-introduction programme is up and running.

The first batch of Teutonic chicks has begun to hatch and over the next few years they will be released on to their new manor of the Somerset Levels.

Being German, they will clearly not be backward when it comes to establishing and indeed expanding their territories, although hopefully this will be done with the more contemporary and conventional method of towels rather than a panzer division.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10089022.stm

The Cranes have rather irritatingly been called “Herons on Steroids” – clearly a ludicrous invention of some public relations wallah at either the WWT or RSPB head office. Why anybody feels the need to jazz-up elements in the natural world is beyond me, but then I am a curmudgeon and proud of it.

And, dipping my toe into the scary and seldom visited world of metaphysics, are Grey Herons just Cranes on growth-suppressant hormones?

Anyway, are there enough bigoted comments in this post to warrant a visit from Gordon Brown?

Until later.