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  1. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    As an ex motorbike rider, I can tell you that an insect hitting you in the face at speed, is no fun. I never wore an open helmet but I have on occasion had a bee, hit my visor whilst I was doing about 70mph. I sounded like a rock hitting me and had I not had a visor on, I can honestly see the...
  2. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    He walked in holding a Kookabura in his hands in front of him and sorry it was in to a doctors surgery. The receptionist said, 'sorry, we don't treat animals, there's a vets practice down the road', at which point, he removed his hands to show that he was impaled through the midriff by the...
  3. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    But they don't all enjoy having it noticed and pointed out to them!
  4. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    Heard the one about the bloke in Australia who walked in to a vets surgery holding a Kookabura?
  5. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    I see no one has put their name to these incidents have they?
  6. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    Do these people exist? You'd probably have to scratch the entirety of most peoples nightbird lists!
  7. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    This sounds like a tall tale to me, the chances of a Rail, allowing itself to be trodden on, seem remote at best. Is this described anywhere in official literature? Is Black Rail the one where they used to use a string with tins cans attached at intervals, to drag a small swamp in order for...
  8. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    Exactly so and rather than 'publication', the more important word is 'comparison' because you need a standard reference point. It would be like going to buy a piece of wood and having asked for a piece 3m long, you call the woodyard when you find it's only 2.9m, to be told, 'ah but we don't...
  9. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    But you haven't seen a moth, you've seen a catterpillar and Mysticete has definitely not seen that frog!
  10. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    If you'd seen a Peacock, you would by the very definition, have seen a male. You could also argue, that waiting to see a male, means you either have insufficient confidence or ablity, to ID a female or juvenile. :t:
  11. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    That is something many people do when confronted with difficult ID's, Sunbirds and Weavers for example. I've often heard people say, after scutinisiing a potential tick that's difficult to ID that 'I'll wait for a male', I might even have said it myself!
  12. Andy Adcock

    Birder's Lifelist - should heard birds be counted?

    Thew clue is in the name of the hobby, it's not 'bird listening' is it?
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