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Yep.

Visible migration, you find a vantage point preferably one where you have some sort of natural funnel. I just go to the top of a hill which is a good view of the surrounding area.

My eyepiece arrived today though so I spent most of the day playing around digiscoping instead

Plus fairly overcast so wouldn't be able to see much.

13-Sep-2014 19:57:50

13-Sep-2014 20:55:15 - Last edited on 13-Sep-2014 20:55:38 by Wilf

16-Sep-2014 14:03:55

Do you not use google


Here are some other terms, I just copied this from Bill Oddies little black bird book, which is a nice little read in itself.

Dip out: Fail to see the bird you wanted to see.

For instance I went to look for a Wood Sandpiper a while back and didn't see it, ergo I dipped.

Gripped off: you don't see it but somebody else does.

Some other people saw the Wood sand after I'd been ego I was gripped off (sounds exciting doesn't it

Duff gen: false info pretty much. Somebody might tell you a bird is on a certain pond and when you go noting is there apart from a few mallard

String: Somebody sees something and then uses various features to support the claim despite being false. For instance somebody was iding a curlew as a snipe and using the features to back it up despite the Curle being the largest european wader and a snipe faily small. Usually involves rare bird somebody reports.

Somebody was telling people that a ruff was the pectoral sandpiper and even me having never seen a pectoral sandpiper knew it was a ruff he was pointing out to people... after about 20mins he changed his mind and decided that it was infact a ruff...

Dude: a bird watcher who isn't as obsessed or knows all the birds likes to go out when it is warm and stay inside when it is cold/wet ( a bit like me ) can be used as an insult amongst birders, lol.

16-Sep-2014 18:47:43

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17-Sep-2014 17:05:14