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Old 12-12-05, 03:16 AM   #47
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Shock, Horror BBC headlines with some appoligise to bird lovers.
' Twitchers watch robin served rare.'

'Birdwatchers from all over Britain who gathered in Grimsby to catch sight of a rare American robin were
horrified to see it eaten by a passing sparrowhawk.

They were still setting up their cameras when the predator swooped down from a row of drab factories and
warehouses on an industrial estate.

The young bird, from the southern US, "didn't really live to enjoy her moment of fame," a twitcher told the Guardian.
The robin's vivid red breast made it an obvious candidate for a lunch date.

"It was a terrible moment," Graham Appleton, of the British Trust for Ornithology, which had spread news
of the bird's arrival, told the newspaper. '
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