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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mick Sway" data-source="post: 1827174" data-attributes="member: 15566">Lesvos 2010Re lack of response - No one's more disappointed than myself Steve.Obviously I didn't want to be the only one posting.Re the Baillon's, there was one reported at the East River Ford on 11/05/10.However after 2 hours of Twitching it that morning, we gave up for some butties, at which point the Crake popped out, our friend Steve Gibson hailed us, and it it turned out to be a Little Crake - very nice all the same!This Crake went unnoticed by most birder.Did any one else find the two large coach parties of birders rude?They seemed to take over every site they appeared at.At Kavaki Tina and I were waiting for a glimpse of the Ruppell's, when the Tsalis coach pulled up and 30+ noisy birds disembarked.I had to ask them to shh, which they grudgingly observed.Achlederi also fell victim to this.As we left the latter site one day after a walk around the woods,there was a lady with a super zoom on a mono pod, poked 6 ft from the Kruppers  nest stump,this thowever took the biscuit.BestMick</blockquote>