| Re: Do rare birds excite you?
I do get a thrill from seeing a bird I've never seen before, but don't particularly care how rare it is.
On the few occasions I have been to look at a 'twitchable' bird, TBH I've always found the pressure and desperate clamour to spot/ photograph the bird completely off putting.
One of my favourite wildlife sites is seeing a field full of Wigeon grazing away on grass shoots. I can watch that for hours. Sometimes I will go out on the park and watch Starlings go about there business. They have so much character. There are an awful lot of birders out their who don't actually seem to watch birds. Nothing against that, if ticking off lists is your thing then fine, good luck to you. But not really for me. |