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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Harper" data-source="post: 1253821" data-attributes="member: 53858">Certainly did. It was quite surreal, we were stood in the car park and it came walking out of the forest towards us, and wandered around the car park. We were naturally quite wary and kept moving around to keep out of its way, but all of a sudden it decided to make a sprint straight at my dad from 10 - 15 metres distance, as it got close it went down onto its left side and slid in kicking him on the ankle, fortunately causing no injury. It got straight back up and then continued to wander around the car park, then followed us as we walked along the road.Back to the theme of bogey birds, can you have a bogey bird if you have never made the effort to go and look for one? Easiest British ticks for me would be Cirl Bunting, Hoopoe or Lesser Yellowlegs, but the fact that I have never tried to see any of them in the UK doesn't really make them a bogey bird to me. Two-barred Crossbill would be my bogey bird on my terms as I have dipped on them several times, so here's hoping for one in England sometime soon.</blockquote>