Review: Moa Sightings December 22, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
[automatic reserve post] When Beachcombing was just a wee sprog, he used to read books and be transported to other worlds. Those were the times when three hundred pages written by John Buchan, Evelyn Waugh or Enid Blyton could set off fire balls in his head. But then Beachcombing lost his innocence – schooling […]
The Moas of Cannibal Gorge November 4, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing is in an ornithological mood this month. It all started off with the druidic ravens at the Tower of London, then came the hibernating swallows, the parrots of Orinoco, swan-necked Mary Beard and today, to round off the series, he turns to one of his favourite bird stories of all time: the moa of the Cannibal […]
