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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3295599" data-attributes="member: 69491">IanThose are the weakest of stereotypes. I know no one who is not a birdwatcher first and foremost and I have spent my life with twitchers. As I pottered around my patch this morning, of course, it would have been nice if the next Chiffchaff was a Tennessee Warbler or less outrageously the next Robin a Red-flanked Bluetail or even the next Goldcrest a Firecrest but I thoroughly enjoy birding wherever I can including this morning's Chiffchaffs, Goldcrests, Long-tailed Tits, etc. Indeed two of my foreign trips this year have been to locations without new birds for me (Canaries and Estonia).Friday was St Mary's Island as I was in your neck of the woods for the rugby that evening and enjoying the common birds pictured below. If a tick had broken, I would not have used my rugby ticket as I am a twitcher and would then have reverted to type. You could then have stereotyped me happily. B <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />All the bestPaul</blockquote>