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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MKinHK" data-source="post: 3564564" data-attributes="member: 21760">Another aspect that influences the self-found strike rate is how many others cover the same sites. Lots of birders covering a site equals lower likelihood of self-finding because someone else may have found it first. While I'm happy to twitch and bird with others, I often bird on  my own and  my patches have mostly been my own, with other birders generally visiting after I have had a good run of migrants or, less regularly, pull out a quality bird, so my self-found strike rate in Hong Kong is 88% (405 out of 460).But the extra coverage these birders bring also delivers birds,  which I am delighted to see. So,  to take this to absurd levels . . . could/should I be also claiming some sort of self-found credit for these because they'd never have been found unless I'd been digging up the birds that attracted the finders to come in the first place?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />CheersMike</blockquote>