a true Fair Isle story
in the early days of the bird observatory there was an old local who went up to the observatory to report he’d see some rarer than rarer than rarer bird on the island, he wasn’t well received, much disbelief and amusement from the bird pros and he was sent packing, he tried a few times again, with conversations getting a bit more heated each time, on his last visit on the subject, after they’d impolitely told him that such and such a bird would never be on Fair Isle and to stop wasting their time he pulled the aforementioned bird out of his pocket, apart from the neat .22 hole it was in perfect condition.