Posted by Peter H on April 09, 2006 at 12:40:38 from 81.132.218.242 user Peter_H.
The G.A. was not the first to report this phenomenon:
And yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noon-day, upon the market-place,
Hooting and shrieking
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III.
I wonder if Casca wrote to the Roman Natural History Museum about it?