What irrates you when birding! (1 Viewer)

[teamsaint]

dog crap

too much bloody dog crap all over our coastal paths, seawalls, beaches

people who get caught not cleaning up after their dogs should be shot. im not joking. it's inexcusible


also people who say "don't worry, my dog can't scare the birds off because i'm an RSPB member!"

 

[Vectis Birder]

dog crap

too much bloody dog crap all over our coastal paths, seawalls, beaches

people who get caught not cleaning up after their dogs should be shot. im not joking. it's inexcusible

Seconded about the dog crap, but what's worse is the idiots who do pick up the dog mess only to then chuck the plastic bag containing said mess into the hedge! May as well leave the dog mess as it was. :C

 

[Vectis Birder]

...the 'I put my pet before people' types...

That depends on who the people are...

 

[teamsaint]

Seconded about the dog crap, but what's worse is the idiots who do pick up the dog mess only to then chuck the plastic bag containing said mess into the hedge! May as well leave the dog mess as it was. :C

or hang it in trees...

certainly some weirdos round these parts

 

[durham giant]

My friend, A creditable birder for 60+ years
For example:
MAte, look at this... what is it... SLENDER BILLED CURLEW. I sprint to get to him and the only bird there is a REDSHANK. He laughs....

OR:


KING EIDER LOOK KING EIDER! even though it was in the middle of shropshire, i belived him (he is convincing) turns out to be a mallard. He chucckles

 

[DunnoKev]

That depends on who the people are...

Heh heh - If this were "QI" your words'd be flashing up on a big screen and you'd be losing a hundred points at least Vectis I think I've solved it anyway. When I take over the world the first law is gonna be no-one can own an animal with a higher IQ than they themselves have.

I'm off to take my plankton for a walk.

 

[Vectis Birder]

Heh heh - If this were "QI" your words'd be flashing up on a big screen and you'd be losing a hundred points at least Vectis I think I've solved it anyway. When I take over the world the first law is gonna be no-one can own an animal with a higher IQ than they themselves have.

I'm off to take my plankton for a walk.

Lol. :-O

 

[ovenbird43]

Birders who think everybody else is wrong.

As if an entire team of 6 couldn't tell a Palm Warbler from an American Pipit!

 

[Fozzybear]

Little kids who run full tilt and scare away every single bird.

I must admit that when I was a little kid I used to do this in my garden. I also once grabbed a cat by it's tail and swung it around and around... then let go.

...in my defence I was very young and I didn't scare birds elsewhere, and I don't do that anymore. Also the cat was a cat... so probably deserved it.

 

[John Cantelo]

Birders who think everybody else is wrong.

Can I just take the opportunity to assure everyone that I'd never think that everybody else is wrong. No, not me at all ....... I'd KNOW that everybody else was wrong.

Also, for the record, I never wear brown socks .....

 

[mikfoz]

Experienced birders with no time whatever for someone still getting up to speed on perfectly understandable confusion species.

Experienced birders who won't accept that just because you didn't correctly tell the difference between a female mallard and a female gadwall at 50m in Lancashire of all places you actually could tell the difference between a peregrine falcon and a sparrowhawk in flight and didn't deserve to be disbelieved.

People who still don't get excited at the sight of common species in action because all they care about is picking out a rarity. Watch the bloody birds!

BTW I love experienced birders who are patient and polite. They're the best.

 

[Dougie Preston]

Welcome to the forum Mikfoz......

And don't worry, no matter what level your at there are still birds that will confuse the hell out of you...

 

[Sandra (Taylor)]

Quote from Pomskua:

birders who do not know when to use capital letters in a birds name, i.e Great-northern Diver, Red Flanked Bluetail - just looks awful on the page.

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Like starting a new sentence with a lower-case letter or using an 'i' instead of 'l' ................... LOL

 

[mikfoz]

Quote from Pomskua:

birders who do not know when to use capital letters in a birds name, i.e Great-northern Diver, Red Flanked Bluetail - just looks awful on the page.

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Like starting a new sentence with a lower-case letter or using an 'i' instead of 'l' ................... LOL

Eek!

I stand corrected. :-C

 

[colonelboris]

My biggest irritation at the moment is when presented with a perfectly-lit, very tame and comparatively laid-back Goldcrest in a bare tree at head-height, my Kodak P850 won't focus on it. In fact, just the Kodak P850 in general.

 

[Allen S. Moore]

My biggest irritation at the moment is when presented with a perfectly-lit, very tame and comparatively laid-back Goldcrest in a bare tree at head-height, my Kodak P850 won't focus on it. In fact, just the Kodak P850 in general.

Ah! That's photography that is causing the irritation, a new thread subject?!

 

[colonelboris]

Ah! That's photography that is causing the irritation, a new thread subject?!

Ahh, but I only bought the camera for birding...
I'm just glad it's got a long strap. That way I can build up more momentum when slinging it into a lake someday.

 

[Daddylion]

I must admit that when I was a little kid I used to do this in my garden. I also once grabbed a cat by it's tail and swung it around and around... then let go.

...in my defence I was very young and I didn't scare birds elsewhere, and I don't do that anymore. Also the cat was a cat... so probably deserved it.

Yes, once I was getting a great view of a pair Mallards a few feet away and some teenager comes over and scares them away for the heck of it.

Also, that same smudge on the window that looks like a bird in flight every time I look out of it! :storm:

 

[Vectis Birder]

Cyclists who come along a path when I am birding and ring their bell just for the hell of it. Fair enough if I was obstructing the path, I wasn't. Also, ones who come tear-arsing along and making a right din.

 

[dafi]

The nob ends that just walked through the Sanderling i was trying to photograph.

I think i might carry a few bars of laxative choc and toss them to their passing labs next time!!