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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Touche" data-source="post: 1274797" data-attributes="member: 45192">Hi DominiqueWelcome to [the] Birdforum [show].It’s nice to have our continental friends adding their perspective to a forum largely patronised by an island race.Your PoB observations were amusing and familiar – and it’s good to hear from Mike that a cohort of Brits onboard the PoB continue to champion the sartorial elegance of the shell suit: in Europe, not dressed by Europe…Biscay is a wonderful place for the sea birder / cetacean enthusiast – however you traverse its emerald waters. Sure, cruising on a schooner sipping gin slings served by bikini-clad beauties, with Wagner in the air whilst a plethora of petrels frolic over a breaching True’s would be my prefered way of experiencing the BoB but the PoB is perfectly fine, too!The difference between a magic pelagic and a tragic pelagic is a fine one and relative.Folk here do like to post-mortem birding events – I guess it keeps the lurkers happy and the BF click counter rolling along nicely, too.In the absence of the UP, some “work experience” on a trawler would be a good way to get acquainted with the BoBs finest denizens, and you might even haul up an Architeuthis!Let’s hope the recent dip in BoB Little Shears isn’t a continuing trend.</blockquote>