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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oriole Express" data-source="post: 1409618" data-attributes="member: 60460">This year I have found the complete opposite to that.At the start of the year I entered a patchlist competition, and have two local patches that I go to at least once a week, normally weekends as work and lack of daylight hours after work at present mean no time during the week.But entering the competition has made me look forward to birding even more than before.I didn't enter the competition with any ambitions of finishing near the top of the table, as I knew other patchlist entrants would see more birds at their choices and would know far more of the birds and their calls than I would.But that wasn't the point of entering, it was to get me up and out birding.Which it has done  every weekend of this year so far.I'd agree with you on the scarcity point though. I have seen many a birder turn up, see the bird get a tick and off to the next one.I have asked myself more than once, where's the enjoyment in that?But for some that is the enjoyment, and who am I to question it.</blockquote>