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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Songkhran" data-source="post: 1391863" data-attributes="member: 96691">my patch is the area around Sheringham both south, east and west and seawatching north. Because there are very good patch workers in the surrounding area and i'm relatively new to Sheringham my patch ends where theirs begins, i get on with them fine - its not a written law just a feeling you get - so mine goes as far east as West Runton as far West as dead mans wood and as far south west as Kelling Heath. I guess in this birder populated area there is a certain amount of marking out your territory but conversely even if i found something decent in the neighbouring areas i wouldnt think it was truly on my patch as i know the regularly patch watcher there 'should' have found it because of the hours they had put in in that particular area. Of course it never works that way and quite often visiting birders 'jam in' on birds in site they visit once a year!Last year i was working an area but thought i had a reduced chance of finds because the established patch work lived overlooking the patch and in the end had highlights of a Beeeater along the clifftop that i missed because i was down the other end of the common and a Woodchat. The area i'm going to concentrate on this year is an very small area no more than a couple of fields and hedges that in my eyes is the least watched part of the whole area but has a great track record - and its taken me a whole year to work out where that is! And i'm not telling anyone!Of course i'll still be watching the whole area as far along to the West as Blakeney Point and East to Cromer and beyond but the inner sanctum of the patch will be very small.</blockquote>

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