"And is selling his pot for $200 an ounce in the newspaper, delivery fee included.
Gold for August delivery rose $8.80, or 3.2percentto to $284.20 an ounce in New York.
Gold was up $1.50 at $280.00 bid an ounce in London.
The metal reached $1,103.65 an ounce in late afternoon trading.
(On Monday afternoon it was about $824 an ounce in New York).
The whitethroat (Sylvia communis) weighs an average of 12 to 13 grams (about 0.4 ounce) during the breeding season, 16 to 19 grams (about 0.6 ounce) in the autumn, and 20 to 24 grams (about 0.8 ounce) in the winter.
Bullion hit an 18-year low of $280 a troy ounce in December, and has shown little vigour since.
That helped to propel gold bullion to a record price of more than $1,250 an ounce in June.
After a dim 2003, the gold price leapt to just over 3,000 rand an ounce in mid-January mid-January 2004
From $275 an ounce in 2000 it has climbed sixfold in the past 12 years, to above $1,600.
From a peak of $1,100 an ounce in January 2001, when it was much more expensive than platinum, palladium now sells for about $282 an ounce in the spot market.
