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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adam W" data-source="post: 1657043" data-attributes="member: 81080">Thats not what i said.As farnboro John said we are talking about a genuine mistake and surely its in everyones best interest to show some understanding and accept that people are only human and do make  the occasional mistake.The point i was making is that it would have been very easy to hide what had happened and no-one would know there had been a rare Blue winged Teal present.It must be better to have a situation where people can admit to a honest mistake without fear of prosecution for the sake of important information being made available.</blockquote>