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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shifty" data-source="post: 1417944" data-attributes="member: 60118">I absolutely agree. Not sure if they thought they would get money by selling an exclusive to a local paper or if they simply did not realise the opportunity they had.I was being a bit naughty here. I don’t really care anymore and I think there’s another thread on that subject somewhere…I don’t think you need to defend yourself David, I have never quite understood why people are so vehemently against this record. I have never seen a reason to doubt it.Anyway, not sure whether this poll is asking to vote for the most mind-blowing rarity (otherwise we should have Aleutian Tern, Ascension Frigatebird and RB Tropcibird rather then birds like RF Bluetail and Nutcracker), or for the greatest rarity event for birders, in which case Tengmalms Owl is on uncertain ground here, so to speak <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> A nice idea, but was always going to be open to criticism</blockquote>