BIRD WATCHING

A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots
stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider
a marvelous new game.

Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots
search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along
it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads
in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around
and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like
spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports,
"The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and overfly
it.

Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto
their backs.
-- Audubon Society Magazine