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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1812121" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>Good book Cocker's, but it has, perhaps too much focus on Norfolk & London birders and, as I recall, largely ignored those active elsewhere (I've not read it for a few years).  My time as a UK twitcher was pretty limited and I was never part of the Scilly scene (although I did partake of Nancy's bread Pud and meet RAR).  There was, though, a mob of us whose beat was Portland and the south coast.  I recall a long comic poem pinned up at Portland (c1968-70) about a mythical twitch there that included all the 'known' twitchers at the time.  I, and the rest of the 'Southampton mob', were named on it - good going as we had very distinguished bedfellows.  A good read on this topic from the American perspective is Kenn Kaufman's 'Kingbird Highway' which I've just read (having been after a copy for years),</p></blockquote><p></p>