Bird Watchers Shocked as Rare Bird is Killed by Windmill

This sounds like it had been written by someone associated with Monty Python but it's true. A rare bird is sighted and throngs of elated bird watchers turn out to see it killed by a wind turbine. A wind turbine that was probably viewed oh so favorably by the "twitchers". It would stop glacial melting and surging sea levels and make them one with Mother Gaia but it showed it's true self. It's only a machine but to them it is an icon of environmental awareness and a monument to their own inspired wisdom. Fate can be cruel!

There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on British shores this week, twitchers were understandably excited.
A group of 40 enthusiasts dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of the brown, black and blue bird, which breeds in Asia and winters in Australasia.
But instead of being treated to a wildlife spectacle they were left with a horror show when it flew into a wind turbine and was killed.
John Marchant, 62, who had made the trip all the way from Norfolk, said: ‘We were absolutely over the moon to see the bird. We watched it for nearly two hours.
‘But while we were watching it suddenly got a bit close to the turbine and then the blades hit it.
‘We all rushed up to the turbine, which took about five minutes, hoping the bird had just been knocked out the sky but was okay.
‘Unfortunately it had taken a blow to the head and was stone dead.