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Message: <blockquote data-quote="George Edwards" data-source="post: 1632472" data-attributes="member: 8875">Some of these conversations can't help but make one giggle to oneself. Overheard recently (translated from the French) at pond in park:4-year old: I see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 - 7 ducks!5-year old: Where? There are only 2 ducks! Hmm, do you mean those white birds?4-year old: Yes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ducks!5-year old: (Kindly) You know those white birds are not ducks, don’t you… They’re small gulls (“mouettes”, and indeed they were Black-Headed Gulls)The next day at the same spot:90-year old: Ooh, look at all the ducks!Daughter: Er, I don’t think those are ducks… (they were coots and moorhens)90-year old: (Bewildered) But they’re in the water!!Daughter: Well, that doesn’t necessarily mean they have to be ducks…And with that impeccable lesson in logic, off they walked.Seems birders and non-birders of all ages engage in the same sorts of conversations …</blockquote>