What irrates you when birding! (1 Viewer)

[Perry Grin]

Mobile phones, especially when they have a loud, bird song ringtone are then answered and a loud conversation follows. Bah Humbug!

 

[DaveN]

Mobile phones, especially when they have a loud, bird song ringtone are then answered and a loud conversation follows. Bah Humbug!

Experienced that the other day, I'm sure he was auditioning to be the next presenter of Trigger Happy.

 

[Pete Mella]

When you hear someone carefully describing the location of a bird to a companion, and sneakily eavesdrop and follow their directions, only to find they were showing someone a moorhen...

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Actually, since I often like to sit quietly in the car next to a likely spot waiting for something to happen, I do get annoyed by birdwatchers who arrive on foot with telescopes, scare the birds off so far away you need a telescope to see anything and then complain audibly about the political incorrectness of people who birdwatch from cars. They're prolly right, but I still get annoyed by it.

M.

Don't worry about the PC brigade and any comments about birdwatching from a car. Cars make good hides and, as you will have experienced, you will often get better views than if you are out there strolling about.

Sometimes I have to resort to sitting in my car when watching choughs on windswept southern Manx beaches in the winter, as the wind just wouldn't allow me to keep the telescope steady.

Allen

 

[Pete Mella]

I keep thinking of more...

Quietly standing with my bins looking out over a river waiting to see what arrives, only to find someone letting their kids stand right next to me to throw stones into the river.

 

[joannec]

J

As for the police interrogation of birders with bins - did the men and women in blue think these were people who went in for the extreme close-up experience? :'D:'D:'D
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Nice to be back and see we're still going (tho' Joanne doth protest too much about those doggy people methinks.. watch out where she suggests for the next BF get together...)

Perhaps you'd like to guide it Kev.

There is very little about birding that irritates me. However, last week I spent a day at Pulborough Brooks. Forecast was for rain all day but it was all arranged and my friend and I thought we'd hurry from hide to hide......midweek and not many people about, we thought. Unfortunately every hide had a party of school kids in it also sheltering from the rain. The teachers and RSPB leaders were struggling to keep the kids occupied. Nowhere was quiet and we were plagued all day by them.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

There is very little about birding that irritates me. However, last week I spent a day at Pulborough Brooks. Forecast was for rain all day but it was all arranged and my friend and I thought we'd hurry from hide to hide......midweek and not many people about, we thought. Unfortunately every hide had a party of school kids in it also sheltering from the rain. The teachers and RSPB leaders were struggling to keep the kids occupied. Nowhere was quiet and we were plagued all day by them.

I was in a similar position (without the rain) in a hide in the Ebro Delta a few years ago, the young people sitting all over the floor eating their lunch and walking up and down stairs. However, I thought that if the experience (in that case of looking out over the bird-rich lake and reed beds) inspires even one of them to become interested in birds and / or the environment, it is a gain for the planet.

Allen

 

[Russ Jones]

ticks, they get into the damndest places...hate em

Russ

 

[DunnoKev]

Perhaps you'd like to guide it Kev.

Not sure I'd be able to identify the salient features...

 

[Euan Buchan]

When I was birdwatching yesterday joggers came running behind me and I couldn't go to the side as it was full of nettles so I can to walk quickly scaring birds to let them pass. I don't like dogs sniffing at me ether.

 

[Thing]

How about a mad couple taking their parrots for a walk along the cliffs at Runton?

Confusing is an understatement.

 

[Sherry8]

I have only gotten as far as my backyard. I used to have a woods before we moved which started all my bird watching and all the interesting birds we had. Now we built a pergola to hang feeders in and I am attracting quite a few different ones. Not all come back to feed daily but they do make a visit once in a while. ..I guess my problem is vehicles on the road scaring them off...the bad part of living on a corner....Sherry8

 

[Mannix]

Spent another day at Spurn yesterday and once again the amount of people with dogs off leads made my blood boil. Dogs are not allowed onto the point but all of the reserve up to it was just dog city. It's getting so bad with me now that every time I even see anyone with a dog, tethered or not I mutter "idiot" under my breath.

 

[dantheman]

Spent another day at Spurn yesterday and once again the amount of people with dogs off leads made my blood boil. Dogs are not allowed onto the point but all of the reserve up to it was just dog city. It's getting so bad with me now that every time I even see anyone with a dog, tethered or not I mutter "idiot" under my breath.

Maybe it's time dogs off leads were 'marked' as such . .

Using an animal-safe non-toxic yellow spray can, long lasting paint which would take a week or two to wear off. You spray the butt/flanks of any mutts off lead you come across. . . bet the owners wouldn't like it, but I guess proving criminal damage/ cruelty would be quite difficult (most of the world's sheep farmers do it . .). You may want to get a posse of like minded 'dog wardens' together mind when you do it . .

Would work in the same way as making Singaporean Police officers who've been naughty wear 'Hello Kitty' armbands or criminals orange jumpsuits . .

Just a thought . . .

 

[Floyd Barnes]

""mutters under breath idiot"
Hey thats really telling them. (IF its true)

 

[Anhinga Watcher]

Hmm let's see...
blazing sun
mosquitoes
pouring rain

and...

high schoolers skipping class and racing their bikes through grass, flushing every bird in proximity.

 

[DaveN]

Incorrect spelling of Birds. It's Wigeon not Widgeon. Pochard not Potchard. Gadwall not Gadwell. Shoveler not Shoveller. Out birding somewhere and somebody had logged a Perequine Falcon.

There's probably more but that will do.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Incorrect spelling of Birds. It's Wigeon not Widgeon. Pochard not Potchard. Gadwall not Gadwell. Shoveler not Shoveller. Out birding somewhere and somebody had logged a Perequine Falcon.

There's probably more but that will do.

Kestral

 

[dantheman]

Incorrect spelling of Birds. It's Wigeon not Widgeon. Pochard not Potchard. Gadwall not Gadwell. Shoveler not Shoveller. Out birding somewhere and somebody had logged a Perequine Falcon.

There's probably more but that will do.

Mmmmmm. . . .That would just ruin a good days birding for me too . . . :-C

 

[borealowl47]

Older not Wiser!

Hi All,

When you go out birding for the day and later can't remember the
species you've seen!
Probable cause you're getting older!:eek!:


Darrell