Dear Aus-birders
I wouldn’t get too excited by the TV documentary; its a rather bland portrayal of British twitchers in my opinion, produced for the non-birder. Most of the real twitchers would probably avoid the TV crew and certainly not go on record with their views of the birding world, it would all be cut out or only put out after 10.00 pm on Channel 4 after the kids have gone to bed. Better to follow the advice- read Dolley’s book and get hold of the new book by Chris Goodie- The Jewel Hunter; a UK world twitcher in the most extreme, attempting to see all the Pittas of the world in one year- I think it will be available in Australia soon .
I’ll be twitching my way to WA in a couple of weeks- no crowd trouble, fist fights, car smashing , bad language at these birds I’m sure!
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