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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joannec" data-source="post: 1602671" data-attributes="member: 30076">Interesting thread with some interesting responses.Back to the original questions.  Most of my birding is in rural Sussex, sometimes alone and sometimes with husband or one or two friends.  I like both.  When alone in rural locations I never worry about who I'll meet as usually there is no one else there and if I do meet any other people it's generally other people out for country walks or a farmworker checking fencing or something like that but mostly no one.  I'm more likely to fall in a ditch and break my leg than meet another person so I always carry my phone for that reason.  At reserves I don't worry at all as they are all pretty safe places , at least around here but I am aware that some are on the edges of scary urban areas.  I've felt much more threatened in urban environments than rural; there's really no comparison.  There is one place I sometimes bird at dusk, a local heathland and popular beauty spot and that is really the only time and  place I don't bird alone.</blockquote>