LABOUR LEADER'S CAIRNGORMS QUEST TO GLIMPSE 'BEAUTIFUL' GOLDEN EAGLE

                                                                 

Golden eagle with prey (photo: Chuck Abbe via Wikipedia)

 

IS Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a secret birdwatcher?

During his late summer tour of Scotland, he interrupted his schedule to spend a whole day in the Cairngorms in a quest to glimpse a golden eagle.

”It's a beautiful bird, but unfortunately, I didn't see one,” he   he told an audience of supporters at a private event where he was quizzed by, co-founder of eco-campaigning cosmetics company, Lush UK, Mark Constantine.

The Labour leader also spoke of his admiration for other raptor species, such as hen harrier and peregrine, and of his distaste for wildlife crime which he fears will increase as a result of cutbacks on finance for the police.

He recalled that his first ever political speech as a teenager at his schools debating society was in opposition to fox hunting.

A vegetarian of longstanding, the Labour leader, who grew up in a semi-rural community, said he had never eaten pheasant.

At his allotment in north London, he has long grown his own vegetables, combining all that digging, raking and hoeing with watching out for robins, wrens and finches which are all occasional visitors to his plot.

Note: During the conversation, Mr Corbyn made no reference to his opponent within the parliamentary Labour Party, Angela Eagle.