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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Owen Krout" data-source="post: 3400312" data-attributes="member: 131330">That's rather what I was assuming, Dev.  Just somewhat surprised me that they bother with it here.  Given the general way of doing things, I would be pretty sure that any bird roosting in that pen would be sold as theirs.  They are all small flocks kept in villages, not fancies or racing birds.Frustrating as it can be, I think that maybe the challenge of finding and managing to ID all those little birds, especially now that there is so much cover to hide in, is what keeps me so interested.  I did a shore bird trip to Yingkou today and the wife pointed out that I was spending more time trying to work out what was hiding in the bushes and trees than I was in the 300+ shore birds.  (More on that once I get things sorted out)I was scheduled to go back to the Egretry Saturday, but had some business come up so looks like next week now.</blockquote>