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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3652039" data-attributes="member: 69491">AndyYou've got to be unlucky to have to twitch a rare in your garden rather than find it. But I suppose that it is possible if you say live at Dungeness and open the curtains to find people looking in.........My shortest twitches have been when at a location and something has been found at the same time - in respect of a lifer Pallas's Warbler at Landguard that was about 200 yards and Eye-browed Thrush on Tresco was about 100 yards. I suspect that there are quite a few stories which involve walking out of the observatory onto the patio for a tick......In recent years, I was very pleased to have Hudsonian Godwit as less than thirty miles and forty minutes from home. I cannot think of another lifer for decades that was that close.All the best</blockquote>