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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andy Adcock" data-source="post: 3494625" data-attributes="member: 31710">And lets not introduce twitching in to the equation!Most birders in the UK who twitch, will call themslves birders first and foremost but I met a guy once in a cemetary looking for a Wood Warbler (the European species not the American genera).I didn't know him so spoke and asked him if he was a birder, I was astonished when he replied 'no, I'm a twitcher'. This was compounded when he told me he'd see the Wood Warbler which in his words was so bright yellow it could have been a Canary, in other words he'd seen a Willow Warbler.I met the same guy some weeks later whilst looking for a Yellow-browed Warbler and a Goldcrest flew past calling. There it is he exclaimed, I said, that's a Goldcrest, oh no he protested with his six months experience to back him up, definitely a Yb Warbler.  I suggested he go look for it in the bush where it had landed so hed did, only to return ten minutes later having found a Goldcrest but insisting the 'fly by' was the Yb Warbler.Takes all sorts I suppose.A</blockquote>