"I (did not) shoot the albatross"

albatross

A very rare Indian Yellow albatross was was found by birdlover Hugh Harris after it wondered onto his East Huntspill driveway looking exhausted - just a few flying miles from Nether Stowey where Coleridge wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.

Spotted just twice before in Europe, it is one of only one of only 73,000 left in the world.

The photograph shows Simon Kidner releasing it back into the wild at Brean Down, where it had landed after a flight from the South Atlantic.

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