Okay I rarely have a rant. As County Recorder I get to hear of bad behaviour at Cheshire and Wirral sites only on a rare basis, in fact our county birders and visitors are better behaved than many counties.
Generally NW Birder's are overall well behaved ( visiting dicks at the Long eared Owl at BMW excepted) including those with long lens. However the attached must take the biscuit. This is a Kestrel nest! yes I know a Kestrel nest, but this camtwat is stationed less than 15 yards from an open nest site, hoping for than crippling photo of an adult bring prey back to 5 chicks at feathers small, an open nest site which he is 15 yards away from.
Okay He clearly has an IQ in single figures, his field craft skills are in the I spy book of bird watching( unedited first edition, not published) , and his knowledge of Kestrel nest biology, is undoubtedly somewhere between the Greek parliament's view of getting more money out of Germany and the Philae spacecraft not getting frazzled by the sun.
so when challenged , and he admitted no adults had returned during his hour vigil, that he might be a "bit close" his response was " well they are in a nest box so they must be oaky with folks being close"
okay enough said.
I just hope he got that crippling picture before the young starved.
Hugh