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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GiG" data-source="post: 1828206" data-attributes="member: 6690">Reading this thread. this is the first that springs to mind me for me too - had a school trip to Minsmere, we were split in to two groups, one of which were the skivers who wanted a day off school and the teacher with them who was interested in wildlife didn't even see an avocet. The other group (which I was in!) who were interested in wildlife got to see a lot more including walking in to East Hide and being told there's a greater yellowlegs there, which I didn't know was present at the time! Thanks to the birder who let me look through his scope.Another was seeing properly my first crossbills. Had been on an organised trip with a local group and saw the parrot crossbills at Wells in 1985. Although having a couple of poor flight views of common crossbill over the next few years it was becoming a bit of a bogey bird. One day in the early nineties was on a college trip to West Stow Country Park, decided to have a quick look at the feeders and lo and behold three crossbill - totally unexpected!Gi</blockquote>