The BBC News has run a report on Albert the Albatross: No romance for lovesick albatross. He is this albatross who somehow crossed the doldrums at the equator and then rode the trade winds to the Shetlands and the Outer Hebrides, places that in their bleakness must remind him of his South Atlantic home. Albert is lonely because he is the only albatross in the northern hemisphere. He lives with gannets, and every year during the breeding season, he does what he would do if he were at home - he builds a little nest and he waits for a lady albatross to take a shine to it and him. And he waits in vain.
I saw him once on the television. It was very poignant.
Ah this is just wrong. We can put a man on the moon but we can't take a lonely albatross back to his people?
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