What irrates you when birding! (1 Viewer)

[symphony]

People who think my scope is a camera and wait patiently by the side of it for me to take my "photo".

Reminds me of the fool who insisted on having seen a Panther and my 'camera' would have been most handy according to him. (Didn't realise brain imaging had evolved to photo BS and delusions!)

Drunken idiots who inexplicably appear at a nearby quite rural reservoir who think that someone watching birds has no life despite themselves pointing and laughing whilst lolling about wearing ripped piss-stained shirts and carrying bags of empty tins.

Sounds like they're going to use a bin. More socialised than the Dragged Up around here. (Drugged Up fits too). Ask them are they familiar with "Pot calling the kettle black?"


But for that and more, I couldn't care less when it is balanced against even the sheer excitement of self-finding a Little Ringed Plover on my local patch!

Well done it's really satisfying to find your own birds, nowt like it.

 

[ColonelBlimp]

Sounds like they're going to use a bin.

You would have thought so, wouldn't you! However I swear I have seen one chap walk past about 4 bins still cradling a bag full of them-hopefully he was being eco-friendly and taking them off for recycling. The main point I was making was that they are being disparaging to someone whilst plainly displaying how they have just spent an afternoon drinking on their own by a fairly deserted reservoir-an eminently more exciting and rewarding experience than birdwatching, of course! .

 

[symphony]

You would have thought so, wouldn't you! However I swear I have seen one chap walk past about 4 bins still cradling a bag full of them-hopefully he was being eco-friendly and taking them off for recycling.

It seems almost entirely unlikely. Saving 'em up in their hundreds to weigh 'em in for beer money?

The main point I was making was that they are being disparaging to someone whilst plainly displaying how they have just spent an afternoon drinking on their own by a fairly deserted reservoir-an eminently more exciting and rewarding experience than birdwatching, of course! .

Yes you know how to entertain yourself and he dosen't but he loudly declares you 'sad'. That's the pot calling the kettle 'black'.

What's your patch if you don't mind me asking? There's Walverden and a couple of big res's I used to fish years ago when I was an angler (can't think of the name of 'em).

 

[rokermartin]

'Superior' birders or local experts who smile condescendingly when you report a scarce bird.

Or not even scarce. RSPB trip doing the end of day group list: ".. and 3 Goosanders in off the sea". "Obviously RB Mergasers then". "No, Goosanders". "If they came in off the sea they're MERGANSERS, GOT IT?!
Sigh.

Cannot stand so called superior birders who rubbish other birders sightings and look down there noses at other birders.

 

[ColonelBlimp]

What's your patch if you don't mind me asking?

Just the reservoirs around Burnley/Colne really.

Another irritation to add to the list-damaging optics, the one thing guaranteed to wreck a birding trip-I've not had anything as extreme as the pictures that were on BF a while back of Leica Televid 77s splitting in two (ouch!) but I have had a couple of scratch scares plus water getting into the zoom of my Opticron Piccolo.

 

[matt green]

I'm usually OK once I get going, it's the ''getting there'' that I find I'm faced with the most irritating situations!!

1, Dangerous drivers trying to run me over on country lanes!
2, Retarded teenagers with too loud voices sitting too close to me on the train while returning from the coast.
3, Bicycle puctures while miles away from home.
4, Having to endure the eight odd hours of public transport to get to Titchwell and back even though I only live 40 miles away!
5, The ''friendly'' farm dog guarding public rights of way

.......etc etc

Matt

 

[BobTag]

Cannot stand so called superior birders who rubbish other birders sightings and look down there noses at other birders.

Never-ending conversations about which Islands are better, Scilly or Shetland... Only Joking Martin But knowing your enjoyment of repetition, you did make your point already in Post #3 :eat:

For something new, four words; Hayle Estuary, Car Horns... :C

God, I hate birding by roads, especially on twitches, and the local chavs think blasting a car horn as they drive past quickly is funny....

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Sorry folks, I feel a grumpy old man moment coming on...........

I like dogs but dislike their owners who walk them off their leads, have no control over them and continually shout to address this inability. I dislike it even more when they are in places where nature needs protection. Holkam Gap in winter or Wells Woods spring immediately to mind.

As for those who pick up their dog's mess, bag it and fling the bag into the bushes as often happens around here, clearly need some help. I only wish I could catch someone in the act so that I could help them personally !!

Grump grump

Robin

No, expressing common sense is not a manifestation of being grumpy! Someone once said that there are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
Here in the Isle of Man people let their dogs run loose on the beaches throughout the year (except certain town beaches during the summer), disturbing bird life. Has anyone out there actually won an argument/discussion with a dog owner about the dog/owner's behaviour? I don't bother trying, although I have never witnessed any twerp chucking/hanging a bag of excrement.

It takes all sorts, but we should all be responsible to each other and to our environment. Irresponsible dog owners wouldn't agree, responsible ones would.

Allen (philosophical old man, eh, Robin!)

 

[matt green]

.....although I have never witnessed any twerp chucking/hanging a bag of excrement.

You've obviously never come to Norfolk!!

Dog walkers here abouts seem to love nothing more than bagging up their dogs turds and hanging it up in the surrounding tree's ansd bushes....as if awaiting the dog turd fairy to come in the middle of the night and take it away!

Matt

 

[danehower]

You've obviously never come to Norfolk!!

Dog walkers here abouts seem to love nothing more than bagging up their dogs turds and hanging it up in the surrounding tree's ansd bushes....as if awaiting the dog turd fairy to come in the middle of the night and take it away!

Matt

LOL !!! 3

 

[chowchilla]

Mt Whitfield is a place to miss when I'm there in October, then? That said, I'm not in Cairns for long, and just hope that the joggers don't reach the Atherton Tableland!

Allen

There's nothing on Mt.Whitfield you won't see better elsewhere and without the attentions of those morons...

Enjoy your time here!:t:

 

[sideshow bob]

That's 'cos it's so small

This is an undeniable fact!

Now, lets compare Bucks lists........

D'oh!

 

[John P]

The noise made when walking on gravel paths. My hearing is bad enough as it is.

 

[Jaff]

COWS!

In particular a psychotic bunch that inhabits a large area near me and one of my favourite walks along a river bank just happens to go through it. They deliberately stop what thery're doing and come and block my path when I'm walking and if I dare turn round to walk back then they follow me, sometimes even trotting, when I turn round they stop but continue to edge closer. Most unnerving when you've got a lot of expensive gear that could end up in some cow s**t if you get knocked over by some jumped up bovines! It's always the same ones at the front of the pack too!

Now I have to put all my gear away and turn my tripod into a giant cattle prod whenever they try it now and a charge brandishing my super sword soon as them running but they always regroup fairly quickly. Doubly annoying is the fact that Barn Owls hunt over the riverbank and I only feel safe to try and get a shot of them when the cows are elsewhere.

Most infuriating :C

 

[matt green]

COWS!

In particular a psychotic bunch that inhabits a large area near me and one of my favourite walks along a river bank just happens to go through it. They deliberately stop what thery're doing and come and block my path when I'm walking and if I dare turn round to walk back then they follow me, sometimes even trotting, when I turn round they stop but continue to edge closer. Most unnerving when you've got a lot of expensive gear that could end up in some cow s**t if you get knocked over by some jumped up bovines! It's always the same ones at the front of the pack too!

Now I have to put all my gear away and turn my tripod into a giant cattle prod whenever they try it now and a charge brandishing my super sword soon as them running but they always regroup fairly quickly. Doubly annoying is the fact that Barn Owls hunt over the riverbank and I only feel safe to try and get a shot of them when the cows are elsewhere.

Most infuriating :C

LOL!!

It's the horses that are really out to get you!!

Seriously though, they're only inquisitive and soon lose interest if you stand still...I've had them trotting after me at some speed so can understand how unnerving it can be!!

A pic from my local patch in Norfolk, at least these ladies don't bark and nip at my ankles!!

Matt

 

[Allen S. Moore]

You've obviously never come to Norfolk!!

Matt

I have a (non-birding) colleague who hails from Norfolk and, truly, what he says about sections of the community there doesn't encourage me to go there!

 

[Allen S. Moore]

Cattle

COWS!

In particular a psychotic bunch that inhabits a large area near me and one of my favourite walks along a river bank just happens to go through it. They deliberately stop what thery're doing and come and block my path when I'm walking and if I dare turn round to walk back then they follow me, sometimes even trotting, when I turn round they stop but continue to edge closer. Most unnerving when you've got a lot of expensive gear that could end up in some cow s**t if you get knocked over by some jumped up bovines! It's always the same ones at the front of the pack too!

Now I have to put all my gear away and turn my tripod into a giant cattle prod whenever they try it now and a charge brandishing my super sword soon as them running but they always regroup fairly quickly. Doubly annoying is the fact that Barn Owls hunt over the riverbank and I only feel safe to try and get a shot of them when the cows are elsewhere.

Most infuriating :C

Cows are OK! Imagine if the farmer did not think that it is worth his/her while keeping cattle the land might be sold off for a big housing development, and no barn owls then.

 

[jason stannage]

when birders say, have you got the Collared Pratincole answer yes, were behind the ruff, still carn't see it left of the metal gate next to the brown cow, got it ,great bird thats bird number 400 for me, weres it now, left of the ruff whats a ruff look like.:smoke:

 

[BobTag]

When birders massacre the written English language through awful spelling

 

[POP]

When birders massacre the written English language through awful spelling

Leaf it aht mate

POP