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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1241849" data-attributes="member: 2844">Personally, I find it's never a probem being asked to help with identification.  Apart from anything else it's got to be a plus to help get more recruits into birding to give the broader conservation movement a more powerful 'voice'.  I think it only becomes tricky if you risk puncturing someone else's self esteem.  As I noted previously the important thing is to make sure, as far as possible, that becomes 'learning experience' for the person who asked and not merely an excuse to show off!  No, birding is, as far as I'm concerned, something to share,John</blockquote>