Hello Tony,
I accept your point but I do not see a suggestion from Bob that it was taken into captivity because of actual stress from bird watchers although there is a hint that many would like to go and see it. This action clearly was taken because the bird was distressed, probably hot and starving and seen on TV news as eating sand. I suspect that Bob’s comment was in response to Simon’s comment (below) that implies at least to me (but I may be wrong) that somehow the potential twitching opportunity of “perhaps the biggest potential rarity of the year for ANYWHERE in the world” to see the bird would be in some strange way diminished by it being taken into captivity. Although any of you may be teasing, I think there is a bit of sarcasm in there, at Simon’s possible suggestion, as though it is wrong to rescue the bird and thus prevent bird watchers seeing it untouched before it dies.
Philip
