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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fozzybear" data-source="post: 1480384" data-attributes="member: 69297">I do like seeing things I haven't seen before, when I went on holiday to Norfolk last year it was great to see the Avocets and Bitterns and Ringed Plovers, and when I'm walking around my local area and see something I don't see often it's a buzz, but I get pretty much the same emotional high by getting close to ordinary birds - seeing the Robins in my garden going to their nest or getting very close to Blackbirds as they forage (a real good one for me, can't get enough of that). It's always in us to want to see something bigger and better, and some people are predisposed to always chase that and easily bore of the everyday, but others may still enjoy the new and interesting but get great pleasure still from the ordinary. I wonder if making lists may contribute to the former, I did start listing birds but found it made me concentrate more on numbers and thinking about how to get more ticks than just simply going out and enjoying the birds. It made me competitive with my brother, wanting to see more birds than him, which is not what I want to be! I got rid of the lists when I realised that, I didn't want to go down that path. The only list I have now is one I posted to a local group on Flickr for my home town, something I did to encourage some of the other locals to go out and watch wildlife as they didn't think there were many birds and animals to be found here.Paul (Robin Stroker and Blackbird Watcher)</blockquote>

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