I just could not resist this picture of northern rockhopper penguins – sadly in peril from an oil slick.
They come from Nightingale Island – named, not for the bird, but by the English captain Gamaliel Nightingale, who in 1760 changed its name from Broken Island.
I should like to think that he was the Gamaliel Nightingale who was born in Barbados in 1710, the son of Captain Nathaniel (Nightengale) Nightingale
