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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harr1y" data-source="post: 1780236" data-attributes="member: 3809">I havent I.D any chaffinches on here and havent been near Minsmere in about 7 years .. am i missing something here.. i know its something tounge in cheek but youve got me And im not knocking Ken .. im sure under different circumstances he takes a mean pic ..im only commenting on the evidence given .. he does give a very good description ..however at the end of the day as i said its all speculation with no positive conclussion .. i personally would have written it off myself as " the one that got away "without submitting this particular evidence on this particular occassionBut i will say that after submitting such a detailed description ... which suggests that you have perfect eyesight .. you then go and ruin it all by typing hairily instead of harr1y which im sure you could read perfectly well ..im sure this was a  cheap immature dig at me personally .....you then ask us all to take your post seriously ... well .. i didnt do anything wrong  or say anything wrong and i wasnt commenting nastily ..those pictures are not perfect ..ive tried it myself .. it aint easy ..but your obviously very sensitive and cannot accept constructive criticism ..all because i typed the word fact ...i then get proportional 'ability' emphasised im sure to suggest lack of ability ..Ive stated i cannot name anything from those images ...  no one can ..then a personnal call to name myself err ... why ? I thought the topic was reed bunting species ...chill out and accept both positive and negative comments ... ive read through every post and noone has put your personnal integrity into question but twice you have shot back at the slightest bit of negativity</blockquote>

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