Lucky...............unlucky

BrianH

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I read in today's Guardian of the endangered Irish Lady's Tresses orchid, which survives in Europe at only a handful of sites in Scotland and Ireland. The orchid has been spotted in Ulster just fourteen times since 1892.

Imagine the joy, therefore, of Dr Cliff Henry, director of the Ecos environment centre near Ballymena, on discovering last week a perfect four-inch specimen sprouting in one of his reserve's meadows.

Imagine, too, his distress at being unable to find it again.

And at concluding that it had probably been eaten by a cow,
 
That reminds me of the case a couple of years ago of the birdwatchers who flocked to see a rare species of robin (I think). As they all gathered with their binoculars a cat came along and killed it.
 
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