Dear Liz
Please excuse Tony! He is a well-known purveyor of short, sharp, poor
quality humour that we here have go to know well and learnt to ignore 99% of
the time and NEVER take seriously. One might call him our resident "pest"!
We Australian birders are Almost totally of the type that you mention you
have encountered on prior trips and will offer friendliness, companionship
and as much helpful advice and support as we can.
Please continue to use birding-aus to investigate for your trip and to ask
for advice or assistance. We welcome you.
Regards
Bob Cook
Axedale, Victoria
Australia
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Liz
Sent: Wednesday, 13 January 2010 7:02 PM
To:
Subject: Re: ground parrots
Tony
I do hope you're joking!
I have been a lurking member for the over 18 months. I joined to glean info
for our "big trip" through Oz over our winter last year. We are from OS -
I'm Scottish and my other half is South African. We currently reside in
Cumbria, England, so I suppose we're what you would also call "poms".
We spent a lot of money in your country from FNQ to Kangaroo Island and took
up the services of at least 2 members of birding-aus (Del Richards and Simon
Starr) We also stayed at accommodation provided by at least one member of
birding-aus (Kingfisher Park). Thankfully, none of the above mentioned
people treated us as "pests", as you would have us branded. They were,
without exception, very friendly and helpful and made a big difference to
our trip. In fact everyone we met on our trip was very hospitable and
welcoming and we made some great new friends. By the way, 2 of the
businesses mentioned are run by what you may people originally from OS -
would you call them "pests" too? Even said in jest, your comment really
isn't helpful. We are hoping to come back for another "epic" this (our)
winter. Maybe you'd prefer us "pests" to go spend our hard-earned money in
another country? I do hope you're a minority voice. I can also guarantee
if you came over to the UK, you wouldn't be considered a "pest" - I can't
think of anyone I know here in birding circles who would consider any OS
twitcher/birder as a "pest".
Excuse me if you think I've had a humour bypass, but your comment hit a
nerve.
Liz (an OS "pest)
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:02 PM
To: "'Carl Clifford'" <>; "'Paul Dodd'"
<>
Cc: <>; "'Bill Stent'" <>;
"'Greg Roberts'" <>
Subject: Re: ground parrots
> Pests.
>
> Tony
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:29 PM
> To: Paul Dodd
> Cc: ; 'Bill Stent'; 'Greg Roberts'
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Re: ground parrots
>
>
> Would you count twitchers from OS as migrants or vagrants?
>
> Cheers,
>
> C
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