Love your paragraph about the Birder seeming not to enjoy the Lapwing to be cool while everything in you is joyous in seeing it. We need more joy in our hobby and less grumpiness trying to be cool. Good on you 😀.

What happened to going clubbing afterwards? 🤣

Love it

Wise words indeed 👍🏻

Definitely mate. I've got my winter bird survey to do in the forest in January which will give some nice species but after that I'll struggle finding anything around here.

What about a self-found list for 2026? I'm thinking of doing that but doubt it will be very large, as Mid Devon is pretty bird-less 🤣.

It's keeping its options open 🤣

What a weekend Bertie has had 😉.

I'm not going to mention the old 🌰.

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Nice to see you earlier - a cracking day - I'll be celebrating later

Just remember it's no "fun if you see everything" 🤪🤣

What a beauty!

I quote "It'd be no fun if you saw everything" but at least you were compensated with something else 😉🤣