Andy Adcock
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Being 'on the clock', opens out the field a lot, my Cedar Wawing was 'at' work', that's to say my normal, factory location in Nottingham.
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best birds seen whilst working (1 Viewer)
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Andy Lakin
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Apologies I obviously skim read your post and got the wrong end of the stick
Jon Turner
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White-winged Black Tern, Spoonbill, Red-necked Grebe.
Andy Adcock
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The overwhelming evidence suggests that certainly in threads like this one, most of the respondents and indeed initiators of such threads, are from the UK.
The threads that exist around twitching, are British, most of the rarity threads are British. Whilst the membership maybe gloriously varied, non Brits tend to be much less involved outside of certain areas. Even the trip reports section is mainly by Brits but I guess this is down to the site rule that this should be an English language site. I know that there are some hardcore Scandinavian birders and also from the low Countries and it would be great to see some of their reports but they will no doubt be uploading to the sites relevent to their native languages.
The most presence by non Brits is probably in photographic, optics and Ruffled feathers. You may think I'm a prolific poster but you should see the numbers of some of the photographers!
Feel free to start a similar thread for Germany.
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angusmcoatup
Paul
No- it’s a forum open to all and the OP hasn’t restricted it nor can I see why they would.
dantheman
Bah humbug
Andy Adcock
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How many Non British replies have their been?
Mysticete
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How loosely do we define working. Because most of my international birding has been accomplished through adding on some extra days or skipping out on days at conferences or data collection visits. It's how I have been able to bird Cape Town, New Zealand, several places in Australia, England, and Alaska, off the top of my head.
If we are being very strict, probably Azure-winged Magpie in Japan, as there was one chilling right outside the front entrance of the museum collections one evening leaving work. I've also run across some decent migrants while a grad student at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh on campus. These have included Townsend's Solitaire, Williamson's Sapsucker, Pygmy Nuthatch, and nearly all of the Junco forms.
If we are being very strict, probably Azure-winged Magpie in Japan, as there was one chilling right outside the front entrance of the museum collections one evening leaving work. I've also run across some decent migrants while a grad student at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh on campus. These have included Townsend's Solitaire, Williamson's Sapsucker, Pygmy Nuthatch, and nearly all of the Junco forms.
You’ve lost me there Dan.
From memory it was early morning when I left Göteborg so I would have had frukost at the hotel. 😁
Sangahyando
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And?
Scandinavian and Dutch people tend to have an excellent command of English, so they may still be communicating in English outside of specialist twitching sites. If not here, maybe on facebook et al.
Is the title of this thread "best birds seen whilst working, only British citizens need apply"? What if the "best birds" I've seen while working weren't in Germany? What if your "best birds while working" weren't seen in Britain?
This is a forum on the internet, which is international by definition. That is why, among other things, people in the ID section are asked to always provide an approximate location in a form that is intelligible to all.
Andy Adcock
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Why are you making such a fuss again and btw, how many foreign contributors are there to this thread, have you offered anything apart from this crap?
My point about Scandinavians, not that you're remotely interested outside of nationalisticl point scoring, was that they are probably not inclined to produce a trip report in their own language and then replicate it here in English.
You're on ignore now so I won't hear any more if it. I'm off to the pub, enjoy your evening.
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Mysticete
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Good Idea for a follow-up thread. Best Bird seen while playing hooky from work
Sangahyando
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That's rich coming from you of all people. But thank you for providing an example of insane troll logic.
Oh Yeah🤣 What a bird😎Good Idea for a follow-up thread. Best Bird seen while playing hooky from work
JWN Andrewes
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I found a Yellow-browed Warbler at work a few years ago, and when I brought my camera in the following day to try and get photos it had gone, but I got a flyover Short-eared Owl instead. Have also had Waxwings on site a couple of times, and Osprey over. Used to regularly get Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, but no more.
Managed to twitch a Dark-eyed Junco on a lunch break once.
Managed to twitch a Dark-eyed Junco on a lunch break once.
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