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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gandytron" data-source="post: 1251979" data-attributes="member: 47750">A bunch of us (two birders & three non birders) went to a site in southern France back in the early 1990s to look for Black Woodpeckers.  We camped over night and next morning we went romping off in the pouring rain to look for the woodpecker.  After a few soggy hours in the forest my (now long since ex-) girlfriend and the two other non-birders decided that coffee was needed and so headed back to the tents, leaving me and BF's JCL to keep looking.  Needless to say the three non-birders had good views of a Black Woodpecker on a tree by the path.  They really enjoyed telling us about it.I've still never seen one, and my ex is now married with three kids and will doubtless never go birding again.  There is no justice in the world!</blockquote>