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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen C" data-source="post: 1388562" data-attributes="member: 16111">waiting for wallcreeperJonInteresting and very common perspective on waiting for birds, and Wallcreeper in particular.  Funny isn't it, how we decide often quite illogically, that something just isn't going to turn up.I had a client last Christmas who wanted to leave the cold and wet next to a windy coastal cliff-face in the Garraf (can't imagine why) because 'it didn't look like it was going to turn up'.  Not sure on what evidence we base this kind of assumption but I get people saying this to me all the time.Admittedly it's not the same, as in your case it seems, when you're not sure a bird is there in the first place.  It took us several cups of coffee, a flask of soup and almost 90 minutes before it turned up.The longer you wait of course the more you appreciate the bird and he was the only person I've ever seem actually jumping up and down at finally getting this elusive lifer (and he was from India where of course Wallcreepers also frequent).All the best</blockquote>