Barred Wobbler
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John, how dare you suggest that maybe one or two of the halo-polishing ‘pure birders’ may be less worthy than one of their number, such as I, who have lapsed and committed the ultimate sin of having purchased a camera, henceforth to be forever known by the insult ‘togger’Most of them are birders with considerable skills and the noise of a shutter is generally less than that of birders and grockles yakking. Of course there is the odd exception which all of us deprecate, but people who can't close a door quietly or exercise volume control over their voice (and don't start me on the ones who know nothing but won't shut up talking rubbish) are a bigger problem in hides.
John
PS regarding shutter noise; it’s a pain to the photographer too, that’s why my old camera body that I bought in 2014 had a setting for a quieter, but slower shutter and my two most recent bodies can function in perfect silence (at significant expense). It’s not in the photographers interest to scare his subjects with shutter noise, particularly as he needs them to be considerably closer than the scope carriers do.
PPS. I try to avoid hides if I can. Too many yappy people keeping the birds at maximum range. I much prefer to be mobile.
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