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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wotcha" data-source="post: 3161070" data-attributes="member: 128913">Thanks Kits. Hell there is still SO much to learn about birding, it can be quite humiliating tbh. I keep discovering I'm so full of half-bake assumptions and preconceptions that are being lanced by birders on here and at reserves I visit on almost a daily basis. The other week I went out to Otmoor to film a murmuation only to be informed after I'd posted a clip of it on YouTube that I'd actually filmed lapwings!!  AAAARRRGGGHHH !!! So anyway I went back to Otmoor and this time captured the real thing,  which made it an even greater thrill.But at the end of the day I couldn't really give a monkeys about my faux pas. Too old for that. The only thing that matters is I'm having such a fantastic time getting more and more into this amazing pastime, it just keeps on getting better and better. The other day I bought the Bird Atlas of Britain because I wanted to find out where I could hope to find what bird, and now I'm spending all my time studying it in detail, there's so much in it. One of these fine days it'll be me who turns out to be the expert and then I'll be like you, frustrated with ********s like your friend who just won't listen. :t:</blockquote>