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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edward" data-source="post: 166385" data-attributes="member: 822">In Iceland we see the smallest tip of the iceberg. It's a country bigger than Ireland but with no more than 15-20 people actively looking for birds on a good weekend in October, backed up by a loose network of non-birders who report strange things to birders if they stumble across them (Least Flycatcher, Varied Thrush, Green Heron all good recent examples). There are hundreds if not thousands of kilometres of coastline which receive no coverage whatsoever although admittedly we have fewer trees for them to get lost in. Just think how many eastern rarities the Finns lose in their impenetrable forests! As an example of what we are missing we always cite the case of that October morning in 1967 when a farmer in south-east Iceland, the only birder in the country at that time, saw in his small garden Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager and Black-and-white-Warbler. If that was in south-east Iceland, what was in the south-west, especially on the Westmann Islands? The mind boggles.E</blockquote>