Adam W
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:-O Yes I did,probably just a meaningless coincidence(i hope) but you cant help wonder.
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:-O Yes I did,probably just a meaningless coincidence(i hope) but you cant help wonder.
Songkhran
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now Lee is on this forum, I was wondering whether he or anyone else could confirm some rumours I've heard about him or whether they are just tabloid gossip.
Is it true that Lee has a thing about custard?. I heard somewhere that Lee was eating with some other birders and for pudding a large bowl of custard was placed on the table. Lee took one spoonful of it and then grabbed the bowl and started shovelling it down, the other hand cradling the bowl in a 'this is all mine and you can't have none' fashion, it was like he'd never seen custard before.
Is it also true or nonsense that Lee, I believe had just got off a plane on a Scottish island and for some reason passed out. A local doctor was summoned. On inspecting his eyes that doctor was fooled by the lifeless impression his dodgy eye made and the great man was pronounced dead on the scene, they were apparently not able to find a pulse for over a minute.
One thing i can confirm is Lee's seawatching technique which i have been privileged to observe on more than one occasion. When rain is forecast, Lee turns up with a towel and when it starts raining, rather than standing up on the benches like the rest of us, Lee solemnly bows his head, places the towel over it and remains motionless and silent until it stops. At the end of the seawatch, he leaves, the towel casually flung around his neck Rocky style.
Come on people anyone who carries himself in this way is a legend, so what if he doesn't believe you've seen a Semipalmated Sandpiper!
Cheers Lee, Josh (who called the Sab's at Sheringham this Autumn).
Is it true that Lee has a thing about custard?. I heard somewhere that Lee was eating with some other birders and for pudding a large bowl of custard was placed on the table. Lee took one spoonful of it and then grabbed the bowl and started shovelling it down, the other hand cradling the bowl in a 'this is all mine and you can't have none' fashion, it was like he'd never seen custard before.
Is it also true or nonsense that Lee, I believe had just got off a plane on a Scottish island and for some reason passed out. A local doctor was summoned. On inspecting his eyes that doctor was fooled by the lifeless impression his dodgy eye made and the great man was pronounced dead on the scene, they were apparently not able to find a pulse for over a minute.
One thing i can confirm is Lee's seawatching technique which i have been privileged to observe on more than one occasion. When rain is forecast, Lee turns up with a towel and when it starts raining, rather than standing up on the benches like the rest of us, Lee solemnly bows his head, places the towel over it and remains motionless and silent until it stops. At the end of the seawatch, he leaves, the towel casually flung around his neck Rocky style.
Come on people anyone who carries himself in this way is a legend, so what if he doesn't believe you've seen a Semipalmated Sandpiper!
Cheers Lee, Josh (who called the Sab's at Sheringham this Autumn).
Veracocha
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Not whilst he's wearing those white socks he's not. If he loses them socks I'll go with the legend bit.
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The sniper
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Ryman Premier too! Lowestoft FC all the way, look forward to visiting AFC Hornchurch
Blimey, we might need to start a Ryman sub-forum.
We are the Hendon and we are the best, we are the Hendon and f**k all the rest. Off to Chelmsford tomorrow for First round of Cup:t:
Don't mention last weekend's trophy results - I drove all thew way down from Cley to Sudbury, missing an afternoon's birding, to see our wirst display for many a year.:-C
Good luck tomorrow,we are driving down to bideford in 2 weeks for the next round of the trophy,it will be my nippers first away game as I have managed to persuade her indoors to go away for a few days,should get a bit of birding in as well
Have you bought a tea hut calendar yet???
John Fordham
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wolfbirder
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I find the people who hold any strong opinion about Lee fascinating. He is certainly a character and a very clever individual, but the strength or depth of feeling demonstrated on this thread can surely only be driven by intense feeling of envy or of competition.
I love birding/birdwatching/twitching too, but these characters who feel the desperate need to get one on Lee Evans raise more question marks to me than Lee's own personality. Why are they so wound up about what is after all just a hobby, however seriously you take it?
Or am I missing the point somewhere?
I love birding/birdwatching/twitching too, but these characters who feel the desperate need to get one on Lee Evans raise more question marks to me than Lee's own personality. Why are they so wound up about what is after all just a hobby, however seriously you take it?
Or am I missing the point somewhere?
The sniper
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Steve Babbs
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Ryman Premier too! Lowestoft FC all the way, look forward to visiting AFC Hornchurch
I saw the programme and people who know me whats coming next... I blame the programme makers/journalists for their fixation with stereotypes. No birder or twitcher will be portayed as 'normal', just simply persuing a hobby/personal interest.
I subscribe to surfbirds emails and receive LGRE's about ruddy duck culls, farmland birds etc.. which are always very enlightening and informative.
I quite believe and sadly not suprised the programme makers chose to leave out what Lee said about non twitching stuff like that, as it would have gone against their agenda to portray birders as strange people, rather than people with brains, who care about wildlife and have an understanding of the natural world. Indeed there maybe a number who dont but it would have been good to have had the chance to move away from that image. I long to see the day when the media fairly portay birding in general but it seems they are just set in their own ways socially and politically. Ecven Autumnwatch is just cringeworthy, all about the same old stuff each year.
Twitching is not normal behaviour, there is no way that driving through the night to see some bird that you may well have seen loads of abroad is normal. The fact that it's not normal has always been part of the attraction for me. But, I have to admit, the programme did help me see us as others do. Maybe a bit sad. Birding on the other hand, I would say would be considered normal, although probably not to the obsessive level that many, including myself, do it.
rokermartin
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No it's certainly not driven by envy or competition.It's the way Lee behaves towards other birders having slanging matches not trusting and believing what they have seen i could go on and on but i wont .He has upset many birders over the years.As i said i think the uk twitching scene would be far better without him.
The sniper
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Personally why it needs to be policed to such an extent is beyond me,if people want to cheat that's up to them but ultimately the only person they are truly cheating is themselves
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Periwinkle
Tame Valley Birder
Really - I am surprised you've not mentioned this before.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
One thing puzzled me in the programme - why did some twitchers' car number plates need to be blotted out?
I suppose it makes the cars harder to identify, in case anyone wants to let their tyres down after seeing the programme
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stevo
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draycotebirding
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so the BILL dont get the number,and keep checking to see if the driver has a phone to his ear :scribe:
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draycotebirding
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A man like Ron Johns would not be seen dead on a "car crash" twitching programme such as this one. Too nice a bloke.
John
Craig H
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After reading all (well most) the posts I reckon its like this, a bit like Fantasy Football - Lee effectively invented a 'Fantasy Birding League' some years ago. The rules bear some resemblance to the normal rules (of birding), but its his league so he chooses how he wants it played. People have joined the league but perhaps dont like some of the rules, or maybe one of the other things on here people have been accused of doing. Anyhow. Lee, in his role as 'owner' of the league, feels the need to police it. If your in that league you have a choice I presume - leave or accept. Or maybe not. I'm not a 'twitcher' in the truest sense so perhaps thats just me being simple.
I would imagine that Lee cares not one jot whether I (or other birders not in the 400 club) have seen a bird or not, because I am not in his 'league'. But, I admit I would be miffed if I was told I hadnt seen/misidentified a bird, when I knew full well that I had seen it. But its never happened to me...if you see what I mean.
By the way I am not an aquaintance of any of the characters so please dont shout at me.
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