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  1. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    I hadn't heard of either of those and I agree with Dave that many Hampshire birders get quite wound up by coastal suppression except to the favoured few - more so than they would about outright suppression, in fact. John
  2. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    Fordham. Good place. I once saw a female Golden Oriole mobbing a Black-headed Gull up and down the waterway there, which was spectacular. I never saw anyone tape luring there but it unquestionably happens across the UK. I've complained to photographers blasting Whitethroat calls from their...
  3. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    I have pictures of it with a Yellow-necked Mouse in its claws that I watched it catch right in front of the birders present (within a few feet), so if anything they assisted it. John
  4. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    Right with you on that. I passed one coming off a bank at Pennington having heard some machine-gunning, and asked what he'd got - to which he replied "I won't know till I get home, same as you" - I could happily have smacked him one! John
  5. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    Well, assuming you have a smartphone you could google RBA or Birdguides and ring them: or at least you could use the phone to put it on here. From the site you are at, with a back of the camera photo if you have one. If there's no signal then you could do it when you have a signal. Or wifi in...
  6. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    Don't think so. Illegal activity by falconers in the UK tends to be nest robbing, not trying to catch a fast wary wild bird in the flat open country of coastal West Norfolk which is heavily birded. I've never heard of a vagrant raptor being suppressed for that reason. Even if you caught it, how...
  7. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    I imagine the reason would be given as pandemic-related. I happen to think they would be wrong in that instance but it's a legitimate consideration generating a wide spectrum of opinion. At least we got the bushchat and Taiga Flycatcher. John
  8. Farnboro John

    Twitching and suppression

    This is particularly true of long-term twitchers, who are almost all birders who twitch: the only way to get their birding fix is to go birding as there will not be many twitches for a tick during a year. In any case, a patch watcher who reacts to a phone call from a mate by going immediately to...
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