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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vespa" data-source="post: 1583811" data-attributes="member: 71072">Yes, we are missing a ton of stuff!  Always will be.There has been some good stuff reported from Blakeney today.  Thats a great place in a good location, which regularly produces good birds in the right conditions. However, its probably a fraction of the birds that have arrived along the bushes, gardens and headgerows of the N Norfolk coast.  If I was on my way up there tonight, I may have gone there tomorrow morning, and so may others, and we may all find more stuff on Blakeney point, and we'll all have a great day and say what a terrific place Blakeney is.  Nothing wrong with that.  However, this creates a bit of a snowball effect as all the birds we could have seen elsewhere will be left unfound, but we wont think about them!  So its very hard to get perspective on the extent of rarities because a lot is to do with the sights we visit and more importantly those we dont or can't, because they always more numerous and much bigger.</blockquote>