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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TomW" data-source="post: 1618570" data-attributes="member: 74484">Nicely put Essex Tern,I have a life list in my head, but just cannot be bothered with year lists, county lists and the like. I think I'm a walker who likes to do a bit of birding rather than the other way round.That said I do take the birding seriously and try to identify what's in front of me, but I'm not interested in twitching and generally am happy with IDing what you would consider regular British species. I really would not be comfortable trying to ID anything out of the ordinary unless it was obvious what it was, (eg.Tufted Puffin) as I still struggle with the normal stuff.Hopefully I will be around Abberton early tomorrow to see if I can find any of those exotic waders, then maybe a wander round Old Hall or Tolesbury Wick.Happy huntingTomW</blockquote>