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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Songkhran" data-source="post: 1265320" data-attributes="member: 96691">This may sound a bit new age hippy but i always try to see the things that irritate youwhen out birding as signs that you are on the 'wrong path' and that you can do something about it. I don't like noisy people in hides, i find them pretty intrusive and inconsiderate, even if someone calls a decent bird it can annoy me more as i didn't find it myself. However hides arent always noisy, i think generally people are pretty quiet and chilled, even on popular reserves like Cley, if you go in the evening it can be incredibly relaxing.However if i am in a hide and noisy people turn up i usually see it as a sign to leave, and in your example PBH you ended up in a hide with less birds, but quite often i find 'karma' takes over and you can suddenly get a brilliant flyover sighting or a see a really decent bird within moments of leaving the hide. A good example was at Titchwell last winter, i went into Bittern Hide and within moments a bunch of noisy blighters arrived and started banging on about this and that, i really could not hack it and left but quickly located a Woodcock feeding actively in the leave litter just down the  track, i had missed it on the way up in my anticipation to get the to the hide! The noisemakers then arrived and were chuffed with the sighting and it all became pretty amicable.- a slighty idyllic scenario, but 'following your nose' always seems to work better than getting wound up.</blockquote>

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