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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pratincol" data-source="post: 3305806" data-attributes="member: 65801">When someone finds out I am interested in birds they often say something like,'Oh you are a twitcher then'Only natural when  they associate bird watchers with media images of a gang of blokes,dressed head to toe in green, peering through scopes and telescopes hoping to see a rare bird.I tell them  I'm not, and try to explain that the sort of local bird watching I do is  far removed from twitching.Each to their own,though.</blockquote>