Good work undone...
NZPA London A television cameraman has cracked the story of the railway bird nest. But it was not a smashing success. Rail engineers had noticed that every time one of the 24 daily trains roared by, a pair of oyster-catchers
would start squawking and flapping their wings. Workers checked and found three olive-brown eggs in a nest, carefully hollowed out of gravel between the railway lines on the north Wales island of Anglesey. British Rail invited photographers, including British
Broadcasting Corporation cameraman, John Reay, to see the nest. But as the photo session ended Reay walked on the nest, crushing the eggs. “It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my 20 years on the job,” Reay said.
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Press, 27 June 1983, Page 11
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