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One common occurrence in my limited experience is as follows. After a day of slogging around a bird reserve, I am confronted by an experienced twitcher asking me if I saw the "Lesser Spotted this" and the "Great Northern that". I look nervously to the floor in the knowledge that the most exciting thing that I've seen is a Shoveler (no offence to any Shovelers out there
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Ive been a fairly keen birdwatcher for a long time. I think that the above posts offer some excellent advice especially about finding your local group and their website.
As regards comments as above regarding twitchers. In my view they are the worst kind of box ticker imaginable and will have probably ignored many interesting species of bird present that most of us, myself included love to see. Also many love to wind up more inexpeienced birders,
Learn the common bird calls , Make sure you carry a decent field guide and your knowledge and success will improve,
The advice above to walk a bit and stay still a lot is dead on. and teach yourself to really study groups of birds. It is really easy when scanning a group of finches or waders to miss the vagrant hidden in among them
Good luck.....
Andy