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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pete Mella" data-source="post: 1346990" data-attributes="member: 47236">Sorry to resurrect a long-dead thread, but this very dilemma hit me yesterday.I was at Old Moor, and a guy said "you'd better get yourself down to the next hide, there's a peregrine!". Always a nice bird to see, so I went down, and a small group of people were looking at a BOP, sharing a guy's scope and excitedly saying how they'd never seen a peregrine before. It had really mad their day, you could tell.So I focused my scope on it and was greeted by great views of a sparrowhawk.I don't know if it was to my credit or shame that I didn't correct them. If I'd corrected them I'd have looked like a right smug b*stard, spoiling their excitement and making a fool out of the guy enjoying showing them the bird (although great views of a sparrowhawk like this aren't exactly unenjoyable).Then again, I let people leave thinking that they saw a peregrine, meaning a) their first encounter with a peregrine won't be as exciting for them (ah well, we got MUCH better views than that at Old Moor!), and b) there's a potential they'll report this and it'll end up as dodgy data somewhere (although peregrines are present at Old Moor anyway, so this wouldn't be too much of a problem).The weirdest thing was someone there was confidently making decisions on the age and sex of the bird while pouring over a field guide, without noticing it was a completely different species!So... should I have corrected in this case?</blockquote>

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