Excuse me if this has already been discussed in another thread. I tried the search and could not find something similar (but might have used the wrong keywords).
I thought about this on Sunday as I couldn’t bring myself to go to see Pallas‘ Leaf Warbler and Hume‘s Leaf Warbler. Both would have been lifers and it would haven been easily doable to see both in one day going by train (important as I don’t own a car).
But while having breakfast I realized that I would only go to get the ticks but that I don’t really care about seeing the birds. Somehow all those „greenish“ Leaf warblers just don‘t get me excited. I am not the biggest twitcher but will regularly do trips like that to see a bird I haven’t seen yet, so it was not laziness that stopped me from going but being somewhat uninterested in the birds.
So are there rarities you don‘t really care to see?
I thought about this on Sunday as I couldn’t bring myself to go to see Pallas‘ Leaf Warbler and Hume‘s Leaf Warbler. Both would have been lifers and it would haven been easily doable to see both in one day going by train (important as I don’t own a car).
But while having breakfast I realized that I would only go to get the ticks but that I don’t really care about seeing the birds. Somehow all those „greenish“ Leaf warblers just don‘t get me excited. I am not the biggest twitcher but will regularly do trips like that to see a bird I haven’t seen yet, so it was not laziness that stopped me from going but being somewhat uninterested in the birds.
So are there rarities you don‘t really care to see?