What irrates you when birding! (1 Viewer)

[colonelboris]

'Irrate' this thread quite highly, as it happens ... but I'm not going to give it any gold stars as that would show enthusiasm, which surely is not in the spirit of the things?? ...



I wonder how many times this thread has been looked at, how many times the obvious typo has been overlooked, or is it just that it takes a special kind of pedant to actually point it out??

I love diversity. Just not with spelling, though...

 

[nickderry]

What really irritates me about this thread is “irrates”. Is there no way to correct obvious typos of this sort?

lol, I've tried to ignore this, but I agree with you - it sticks out each time I look at it! o

 

[mothergooz]

I hate it specially when my friends say birding is boring, they never tried it and the only thing they do is play with the Playstation.

Yes! They are more concerned with all their electronic gadgets then with the real live world around them. I get this all the time.

 

[Stoggler]

What really irritates me about this thread is “irrates”. Is there no way to correct obvious typos of this sort?

:clap:

:-O

 

[Farnboro John]

Yes! They are more concerned with all their electronic gadgets then with the real live world around them. I get this all the time.

Yes, I'm the same, electronic gadgets are no substitute for the real thing, said the birder with a pager, digital watch, DSLR, mobile phone, CB......

John

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Dirty dogs

Nothing much to add by jumping on this particular bandwagon but I'll have a go -
1) dogs , especially filthy muddy ones that jump on you (or the wife). I have booted a few...dogs. Very tempted to boot the owner who educates you about it 'not meaning any harm' while you wipe mud and dog snot off.

Ah, cugsy, don't forget doggy drool! When I was younger I often thought about flicking yapping curs with my foot and giving them a flying lesson. Now I'm old(er) and much more laid back I think that dogs just want to be loved, especially the filthy muddy ones!

Allen

 

[Steve Arlow]

My weekly visit to see the Westcliff Ring-billed Gull nearly always attracts passers by intent on knowning what I'm looking at.

Standing there with a Camera on the footpath pointed at the bird its always generates the same questions "anything special about". Pause for breath "yes there's a Ring-billed Gull on the post over there".
"Is that unsual"
"yes, its from North America but its been here 11years now"
"Just the one"
"Yes just the one, thats why its rare"
"has it been blown of course"
"No its been here 11years"

They then trundle off. 5 mimutes later "anything special your looking for".........

Best one though was when I was asked "Is that France over there".
"Well you're in Essex, this is the Thames Estuary so that on the south side of the river is Ke...yes it is France, Dovers just up the road, bye"

Hate birding in places that has lots of people.

Local park, migrant hotspot, used by the public to empty their four legged sh*t machines, I'd have less cr*p on my boots if I jumped into a sess pit. The dogs don't know better its the owners that are the problem.

 

[Dark Knight]

I hate it specially when my friends say birding is boring, they never tried it and the only thing they do is play with the Playstation.

Hi Halcon :t: , yes my young nephews are the same , when i ask them to come out birding they say they want to play ps3 instead

http://robs-birding.blogspot.com/

 

[Canadian Lady]

When I say hi to someone and they totally ignore me.

It's amazingly rude, isn't it? Some people will also give you a dirty look and/or stick their noses high up in the air. |8.|

Jo-Anne |:d|

 

[G Anderson]

It's amazingly rude, isn't it? Some people will also give you a dirty look and/or stick their noses high up in the air. |8.|

Jo-Anne |:d|

Hi Jo-Anne,

I may not say hi anymore to dog-walkers, without binoculars. This is extremely rude and I feel bad about not saying 'hi', in open areas, but well, you need paid to do that stuff now!

It's quite bad when I do say 'hi' and they just blank you.

Cheers G

 

[Euan Buchan]

When you hear parents tell kids alot of rubbish about birds. I remember watching a Mute Swan and a parent said to their child 'a Mute Swan goes quack quack' and I was like in my head 'er no it doesn't why do you tthink it's called a Mute Swan'

 

[Dimitris]

When birdwatchers forget that what they're arguing about is a bird and just a bird.

Just enjoy the creature!

D.

 

[Formatted]

Lectures, from people that don't know diddly squat.

 

[neogfx]

Go easy on us photographers, some of us are conservationists too, and very polite and courteous.
For me it's walkers (obviously when at the coast rather than in a hide). They can see you there trying to be quiet, camera in hand and they come along shouting their heads off. Took me about 20 minutes today waiting patiently for some oystercatchers to land just that little bit closer and just as they did three people just came straight past, looked at me, pointed at my 'big lens' (which also bugs me incidentally, people should just get over it), and proceeded to shout and point at the birds I was trying to photograph. Needless to say the oystercatchers took flight and disappeared around the headland leaving me without the shot I was after, and didn't see them again for the rest of the afternoon.

 

[Guizotia]

On analogy with "bunch of banana"?

A bunch of Banana. A bunch of bananas.

A raft of Eider Duck. A raft of ducks.

 

[Transformer]

Sometimes I take a long walk up to the cemetery, especially Spring and Fall. But Spring is the best time, obviously. Anyhow, it's great, except when the obnoxious landscapers come with their noisy machines, sending all of the birds into hiding and taking away any sense of peace that existed!

 

[JTweedie]

Sometimes I take a long walk up to the cemetery, especially Spring and Fall. But Spring is the best time, obviously. Anyhow, it's great, except when the obnoxious landscapers come with their noisy machines, sending all of the birds into hiding and taking away any sense of peace that existed!

Surely they have to maintain the cemetery? I don't see how you can complain about this and call them obnoxious when they're people doing their job on their land. Now if it was people on quad bikes or boy racers out revving their cars near reserves or other public birding hotspots then that's another story.

 

[arniemonkey]

An experience a few hours ago happened to really irritate me (some relevant details expunged to prevent ID! o ).

There's a local spot where birders often gather to watch moorland, and I arrived there to see some older guys already there having a good look. I set my stuff up, and strolled over to some to ask them the usual "anything about".

So of course one of them says words to the effect of "oh yes, ten Buff-Breasted Sandpipers just went across", really deadpan and serious, not really in a jokey way at all, before turning to talk again with his mates. To which I reply "Alright, thanks" and walk back.

Now, I know I may be a relative rookie, quite young and as yet without Leicas or Swaros (I, or rather my wallet, can wait ), and have made some fairly atrocious ID errors in the past, but I'm rapidly improving and really getting to love birding. In fact, I have done it in nearly all my spare time over the past year, and during this time, if people have asked me stuff, I always make an effort to give them a straight answer.

In fact, I had a guy this morning who didn't fit the stereotype of a Leica-toting dirty tick-hungry twitcher, an older chap just out walking his dog, who when he asked me if I'd seen anything, I didn't gruffly dismiss but had a long chat with and weirdly he turned out to know quite a lot about the Pochards that were about!

If people want more young people to be interested in birding etc., they could start but being a bit more welcoming when they see a fresh face at a local haunt.

Rant over. Exhale.

quite true, its also a gamble as to how much they know ive seen people gathered around whilst im driving i stop and ask what they re looking at ,and you see the look of- should i say a swan or go into detail.. whats the thing to do???

 

[birdboybowley]

Having had the pleasure(?) of freezin' my nads off at Grove Ferry over the weekend I can say that people who have to shout in hides to their neighbours could really do with a tripod rammed into their faces!! Kent birdos - do you know how to talk quietly????

 

[fugl]

A bunch of Banana. A bunch of bananas
A raft of Eider Duck. A raft of ducks.

A box of Mandarin orange? Surely not.