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liadnanPilot whale spotted in the Thames, above London Bridge.
ETA: now thought to be a northern bottle-nose. This is what I mean about the BBC making silent corrections, see?)
ETFA: Snowmail comments as follows:
This is a day when television simply cannot resist a sensational picture story. For the first time since records began in 1913, a whale has found its way all the way up the Thames past the House of Commons to the salubrious wastes of Chelsea. It’s a northern bottlenose whale. My amateur observations suggest that its size and lack of barnacles render it a relatively young whale -- this is added to the theory that its mother is somewhere off Southend.
It's a sloane whale, isn't it?
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Date: 2006-01-20 01:20 pm (UTC)It can fly??
I love the fact they sent a lifeboat in to check on it, presumably in case it was melting.
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Date: 2006-01-20 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-20 02:04 pm (UTC)The Guardian have also been making silent corrections. They had a hilarious photoshop of what it might have looked like for an hour or so before replacing it with an actual photo.
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Date: 2006-01-20 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-24 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 10:08 am (UTC)Actually, I'm currently on extended absence from London but will doubtless be back.
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 05:39 pm (UTC)