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<blockquote data-quote="RecoveringScot" data-source="post: 284151" data-attributes="member: 17473"><p>Well. I'd already been birdwatching for 8 years, but a friend and I were at Fife Ness in autumn 1976 when we saw two warblers on the fencing near the caravan site. One was a very bright Yellow-browed Warbler, and the bird next to it looked almost exactly the same, only with all the colours 'washed out'. At the time we thought it was just a 'funny YBW' because neither of us had heard anything about 'humei'. I'm not even sure that <em>that</em> species was even regarded as a British bird at that time. Can't remember now. Looking back I think we missed a very good lifer. It's too late to dredge it up at this stage. Thinking back, it's amazing how birds that are now expected were strange and exotic in those days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RecoveringScot, post: 284151, member: 17473"] Well. I'd already been birdwatching for 8 years, but a friend and I were at Fife Ness in autumn 1976 when we saw two warblers on the fencing near the caravan site. One was a very bright Yellow-browed Warbler, and the bird next to it looked almost exactly the same, only with all the colours 'washed out'. At the time we thought it was just a 'funny YBW' because neither of us had heard anything about 'humei'. I'm not even sure that [I]that[/I] species was even regarded as a British bird at that time. Can't remember now. Looking back I think we missed a very good lifer. It's too late to dredge it up at this stage. Thinking back, it's amazing how birds that are now expected were strange and exotic in those days. [/QUOTE]
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