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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pastynator" data-source="post: 1718392" data-attributes="member: 32006">Well just to balance your ridiculous statement about "the majority of camera owners".... In my experience it's the birdwatchers with telescopes that cause trouble.I sit in my car happily taking photos with the birds happily aproaching my car and feeding on the high tide mark.... time after time after time there are bird watchers who park near to me, loudly stomp around their car, slam the boot after getting the telescopes out and then procede to stand at the edge of the beach and flush the masses of oyster catchers and plover etc, acting in a way that it doesn't matter because they're more common birds and they're concentrating on trying to spot something really rare.I've never seen a photographer flush any birds. Just the dog walkers, joggers and bird watchers.However i will not make a statement that the MAJORITY of bird watchers do this <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>