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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelBlimp" data-source="post: 1540016" data-attributes="member: 63179">Sitting in a nice hide on Brownsea island today. Door opens. In walk a 8-strong family with four young kids. Kids get bored within about ten seconds.  Parents' phones ring. Parents shout at the kids. Kid in a pram starts wailing to be let out, so grandmother wheels pram along the whole length of the hide to its mother. All assembled optics in hide go bounce bounce bounce. Kid not in a pram starts climbing along the shelf below the window. Grandparents start discussing the logistics of their shopping run or something equally inane in ostentatiously loud voices. Other kid not in a pram starts wailing too, and runs up and down the hide. One of the kids needs the toilet, so back the pram goes, trundle trundle trundle. Open door, door creaks, door slams. Phone goes off again. I leave. After five minutes in next hide family enters again and does much the same, this time about ten feet in front of 20 nesting common terns. Repeat for most of the hides on the reserve.If you want to get your kids interested in wildlife, why take them to a cold, clammy, boring shed, right next to a reserve chock full of deer, red squirrels, chickens, woodpeckers, etc. etc.???</blockquote>