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Elizabeth Bigg
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Hello clenash, and welcome to the forum. Maybe Bill Oddie is able to spend more time on his birding???? 
Glad you saw the red kites - we were lucky too when we were in the area a couple of weeks ago.
Glad you saw the red kites - we were lucky too when we were in the area a couple of weeks ago.
steve_nova
Well-known member
Hi clenash and welcome to birdforum from another local.
John Butler
Registered Member
clenash said:
Hi Clenash and welcome to Birdforum.
With regard to Bill Oddie's success at birding. It is certainly not in dispute that Bill is a very keen and knowledgeable birder but for every half hour show, such as "Oddie goes wild" there will have been many hours of filming and editing before the refined article hits the TV screens, as is the case with David Attenborough's and all other wildlife programs.
I suspect that each site visited will have been fully researched beforehand and the help of local birders/guides/experts will also have been sought to identify areas where some of the more elusive species are regularly found.
With regard to your own birding. don't get frustrated and give-up trying to find your selected species. No-one said serious birding was easy. If it was we would probably not get as much enjoyment from our chosen sport/hobby.
For the record and before I get any flak, I am not having a go at Bill Oddie. I have tremendous respect for him and I think that he has done more than anyone to raise people's awareness and interest in birds and has certainly greatly increased the number of birders in the UK.
Regards from Donana (where it is now 45C - 112F).
John.
Beverlybaynes
Mod Squad
Clenash, a warm welcome to you from the US!
John (112F? ACK!) is right. As your knowledge and experience increase, there will be days when the birds seem to throw themselves in front of you, too -- but no matter how hard and long you work at it, and how good your timing, those days will be few and far between.
But that can be part of the pleasure of it all -- days when the birds are 'cooperating' are real gifts.
Hope you enjoy your time on the forums!
John (112F? ACK!) is right. As your knowledge and experience increase, there will be days when the birds seem to throw themselves in front of you, too -- but no matter how hard and long you work at it, and how good your timing, those days will be few and far between.
But that can be part of the pleasure of it all -- days when the birds are 'cooperating' are real gifts.
Hope you enjoy your time on the forums!
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Clenash,
Welcome to BirdForum! - good to get another Northumbrian on board, 'specially from the Toon
Michael
Welcome to BirdForum! - good to get another Northumbrian on board, 'specially from the Toon
Michael
tony.hetheringt
Well-known member
clenash said:
We went to Bala in North Wales , and still didn't get a pied flycatcher.
We will try Spurn Point and Wells woods in Norfolk in September, otherwise we have dipped on our bogey bird AGAIN.
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Hi,Clenash welcome to BF.
pied flycatcher
Hi Tony
Allthough there are plenty birds i have yet to see Pied Flycatcher is the one i have spent most time trying to find. I have visited several sites all supposedly good for Pied Flycatcher but so far not a sniff. The upside is there are allways diversions like the Red Kites.
Definately a bogey bird, hope you get lucky soon.
cheers Clen
tony.hetheringt said:
Hi Tony
Allthough there are plenty birds i have yet to see Pied Flycatcher is the one i have spent most time trying to find. I have visited several sites all supposedly good for Pied Flycatcher but so far not a sniff. The upside is there are allways diversions like the Red Kites.
Definately a bogey bird, hope you get lucky soon.
cheers Clen
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Clenash,
I know a few good sites around the county for Pied Flies, though it is too late to get them on the breeding grounds this year (they disappear into the treetops as soon as the young fledge), but there's a fair chance of some autumn passage birds mid Aug to early Oct on the coast. Or there's always next May . . .
Michael
I know a few good sites around the county for Pied Flies, though it is too late to get them on the breeding grounds this year (they disappear into the treetops as soon as the young fledge), but there's a fair chance of some autumn passage birds mid Aug to early Oct on the coast. Or there's always next May . . .
Michael
