Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
Know the feeling all too well.
The other aspect is that its pointless to ask "Anything around?" most of the time.
We dropped into phassouri one day, and there was a good crowd gawking around the place. Asked if there was anything interesting seen, to which the response was "Nah not much"
Next thing i heard a bee-eater call and picked up this bright emerald gem flying around over the main pool. 2 blue cheeked bee-eaters feeding around and giving cracking views.
A tick for the 3 of us in the car and the best bird of the trip for me personally.
They just shrugged their shoulders and said "theyve (the bee-eaters) been here for the past 2 hours."
We learned to not ask the question, as whenever we looked around ourselves we found more than these types had found. Had we listened to them we may have just moved on to the next site.
Pariah
The other aspect is that its pointless to ask "Anything around?" most of the time.
We dropped into phassouri one day, and there was a good crowd gawking around the place. Asked if there was anything interesting seen, to which the response was "Nah not much"
Next thing i heard a bee-eater call and picked up this bright emerald gem flying around over the main pool. 2 blue cheeked bee-eaters feeding around and giving cracking views.
A tick for the 3 of us in the car and the best bird of the trip for me personally.
They just shrugged their shoulders and said "theyve (the bee-eaters) been here for the past 2 hours."
We learned to not ask the question, as whenever we looked around ourselves we found more than these types had found. Had we listened to them we may have just moved on to the next site.
Pariah
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