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BBC Twitching Documentary (3 Viewers)
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Farnboro John
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Don't fancy their chances of reaching a major twitch with you if you think Basingstoke is close to anywhere in Sussex!
John
Andrew Gibson
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Reading a lot of these threads makes me laugh. Fot those who make excuses to get off work and throw a sicky this will be a fantastic cover story blower.
Individuals have no say how they are presented or may be edited in after a comment from a complete lame brain.
A programme like this will do little for the hobby as to the general public all will look like nutters.
It will also do nothing for assisting the releasing of news from difficult sites as the impression folk will have is of many people turning up to see a bird with only that in mind.
If you think the program would be made up of scenes of sadate standing and looking from a distance your kiding yorself, they will be more interested in animated situations.
It will do nothing to promote conservation to a wider public which is what i would like birders to concider when travelling to see a tick
Individuals have no say how they are presented or may be edited in after a comment from a complete lame brain.
A programme like this will do little for the hobby as to the general public all will look like nutters.
It will also do nothing for assisting the releasing of news from difficult sites as the impression folk will have is of many people turning up to see a bird with only that in mind.
If you think the program would be made up of scenes of sadate standing and looking from a distance your kiding yorself, they will be more interested in animated situations.
It will do nothing to promote conservation to a wider public which is what i would like birders to concider when travelling to see a tick
CornishExile
rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn!
Well said Andrew. TV documentaries about what people get up to in their spare time are rarely bland and dispassionate - they thrive on what at best is irony, and at worst is downright ridicule. Anyone who expects or thinks otherwise is naive.
Anyone remember the BBC documentary series Wonderland? ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008sc9m )Granted eating roadkill is a little different to twitching, but to the average non-birder... they're both pretty unfathomable and weird things to do with your life.
ce
Anyone remember the BBC documentary series Wonderland? ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008sc9m )Granted eating roadkill is a little different to twitching, but to the average non-birder... they're both pretty unfathomable and weird things to do with your life.
ce
Andrew
wibble wibble
I wonder how many are now looking for face masks? Scary Movie or V For Vendetta.
Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
Ha. Andrew. We ARE nutters!! Everytime my alarm goes off at two in the morning so i can be in west cork or clare for first light i KNOW im nuts!
At the end of a days seawatching when im cold, wet and cramped up in the legs i KNOW im nuts!
Everytime I see some sad pedant start whining about the validity of a bird he didnt see I KNOW im nuts!
You arent one of those people that fools themselves into believing they resemble the normal human population are you? ; )
At least a programme like this stands to be a bit of a laugh, and i hope i get the chance to see it.
Owen
jogresh
Bimble and patch
Any nonce sticks a camera in me gob on a twitch gets ASBO'd...BLACKMORE style...http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=10817043
McMaddB
Don't go too far - i'm told that Richie kills some poor sod by dropping a speaker on them at that gig!
See you at the next Long Toed Stint (with a film crew).
Chris Galvin
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Lorraine Kelly!!!
Archie Archer
Association of Satirical Birders & Ornithologi
I'm holding out for Henry Kelly. The programme could then be called 'Going for Golden-winged Warbler', perhaps.
Xenospiza
Distracted
I'm looking forward to parking problems, stupid questions by members of the public (and is this a rare bird?), stupid questions by twitchers (what does this Blue-throated Black Warbler actually look like?), tilley hats, scores of zimmer frame birders, dogs fighting, desperate dippers and "It's just gone behind that bush...".
Chris Galvin
Well-known member
Or even tears, like the middle aged birder that cried his eyes out on a Cornish hill after the Gyr had taken flight from the quarry in March 2007. He was arriving as we were all streaming back to the cars...
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Chris Galvin
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Well it don't have to be Lorraine.... Matthew Kelly if you prefer!
If you insist on ANY Kelly then it has to be Kelly Brook :t:
Vespa
Tom Hines
So that's Kelly Brook being bashed around the head with a Fender Stratocaster, by someone in a Michael Jackson mask, while a Long-toed Stint creeps into the distance in the background. Can't wait! :-O
Farnboro John
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Thank goodness for some sense in this thread.
Natural World is about Wildlife
Twitchers is about People
It is not either necessary or desirable for every programme to have a conservation message - one wouldn't really fit in Total Wipeout, for instance.
If you can't let yourself be laughed at "it would do little for the hobby" - what the hell is that all about? - you need a new hobby.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
John
Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
Total wipeout is an awesome show!!!! Who does'nt love the big balls!!?
......errrrr....that could be taken up wrongly.
Owen
......errrrr....that could be taken up wrongly.
Owen
Archie Archer
Association of Satirical Birders & Ornithologi
A fine choice of 'Kelly' Mr Galvin..... a fine choice indeed!:eek!:
Archie Archer
Association of Satirical Birders & Ornithologi
Talkin' of giant gonads, I got caught red-handed by a local farmer at the weekend as I attempted to digiscope the 'knackers' of his prize bull! I'm not kiddin' ya, they were like Phil & Grant Mitchell's two heads in a hessian sack.
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