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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JCLynn" data-source="post: 1817357" data-attributes="member: 77625">This is a blast from the past! Certainly jogged my memory about 'Nancies' and the phone.And that silly 'protocol' that some birders used by using rediculous 'cryptic names' for reporting sightings of potential rarities. As if anyone had Nancies phone tapped!I did my 'norfick rounds' via a yellow suzuki dirt track bike in them days.My addled brain has forgotten most of the names, but I can remember that at every 'twitch' you could guarantee to meet the same dozen or so people.My birding enjoyment has changed a bit since then and nowadays, not in a million years, however 'mega' the bird was, would I do that gruel hike along uncormfortable shingle to stare into a bush at Blakeney point. I mostly certainly will never 'ride on the back' of other peoples sightings to play catch up, of course though, if I was 'in the area' and something excited turned up, I would go into twitch mode and have a gander. who wouldn't?As an aside to the thread - what's with this current Red Kite trend? According to what I keep hearing, over and over again, while out birding, all Red Kites are males!! how do folks know they are male, and where in hell are the females hiding? :-O :-OJoe</blockquote>