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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Original PaulE" data-source="post: 1586356" data-attributes="member: 20992">hi john thanks for that i will review my list against the bou list and see whats whatluckily i had a summer plumage black tern last year at abberton so not to much of an issuehi wolfbirder the trouble with your booted warbler you are relying on the skills of others if you know them and their level of skill thats fine i read on a website i think it was punkbirder but not %100 sure that he turned up at a twitch for a rough legged buzzard that everyone was looking at which he recognised as a common buzzard yet if he hadn't of turned up they would all happily have ticked rough legged presumably someone there had been "sure" of the id and once one person says it i'm sure others are happy to go along i think from now on i shall be trying to id the bird myselfcheers</blockquote>