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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdspotter" data-source="post: 1813319" data-attributes="member: 8069">Started twitching around the time Birdline started so unfortunatly missed out on the famous Nancy,s (just), however our Edinburgh crew had some fabled twitches.I remember leaving Edinburgh at 9.00pm to get to Billingham, Weirside for first light, for the Double crested Cormorant, even though it was only a 3 hr drive away!We stopped off and spent most of the evening in a pub called "The Last Pub in Scotland" which was literally on the border, saw the bird then back to the car for breakfast (a couple of cans of Export) then it was off to Wales for a Forster's Tern, with three very drunks birders on board (the driver was sober), including one who spent most of the trip covering the cars behind with vomit:eek!:. Enjoyed many a weekend down south, as we were so far up the road we tended to hoover up all the needed rares present in Britain over a weekend, with many hours spent in the pub afterwards, we then returned to the car for a nights kip, sometimes with a chippy or chinese.Good times and met a lot of like minded folk.Regarding the grapevine, one well known twitcher who was put away for several years for dodgy dealings in some sort of white powder had his notebook seized by the DS, can you imagine what they thought when they found several hundred addresses from throughout Britain, i'll bet they thought they had stumbled onto Britains answer to Pablo Escobar.I know this as one of the lads up here was in his address book, and was interviewed soon after by the cops!Its all very civilised nowaday's, although full of fuds, I might add</blockquote>

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