Paneful crashlanding for storm petrel

LAST weekend I had, nestling in my hand, one of prettiest birds I’ve ever seen, a storm petrel.

It had flown into the lighted window of the house of a friend who lives in an extremely remote and beautiful place on the west Cork coast.

When the bird struck the glass, he and his partner heard it, and rushed out into the storm to rescue it. It is well named indeed, a storm petrel.