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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DunnoKev" data-source="post: 1242865" data-attributes="member: 38448"><p>Ah, looking for the Gross-billed are you yes do you know that's the 17th for this county and the 5th this decade I saw three of them is it new for your county list what are you on me I'm on 333 but it will be 334 if the BBRC accept the leastlegs and I'm on 446 for the country 449 if you count the proposed splits in 'Nerding World' or 589 if you follow the Blighty 400 club rules what's your British list then no surely you must know or what about your year list mine's on 276 which isn't that good this year but the Stoopid Isles are due a good autumn and I'm booked in for the best two weeks so I will break the 300 for my fifth year in a row which is pretty good don't you think I know I'll do well on Stoopid even though the Shelties might have more chance of a good eastern vagrant I can always twitch it what you don't travel you really don't know what you're missing I couldn't keep coming to this place all the time there's nothing here worth seeing though I did come in '97 when the three-barred ish-ish warbler was seen now that was a good day over 400 of us here in the rain waiting for the thing to show got soaked to the skin and off work for three weeks with pneumonia but what a laugh and the boss went mental because I went missing on just my second day back to twitch the Petula warbler what you haven't seen one you really have missed out haven't you so where's this Gross-billed then I really wanted to be on my way there's a fall today I know because I've read all the information on the pager what you haven't got a pager how do you know where to go I couldn't live without mine ah is that the Gross-billed no wait that's a woodpigeon oh that was silly reminds me of when I really annoyed the crowd at the dainty-billed curlew by putting them onto an avocet well I laughed have you got any stories like that really it's what birdwatching is all about all this racing and chasing it's brilliant I only got into it because a friend lent me Bill Oddily's book I think he's great and</p></blockquote><p></p>

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