Hi Denise,
Happy New Year to yourself and Michael.
*Increasing age is one reason why birders moderate their twitching (or
listing). *In my mate Unca Tones case, it's not necessarily that he is
hampered by his age (still a spring chicken really) but that because of his
age, his list of potential birds to twitch is very limited and therefore
his twitching is moderated.... I'm just jealous of his list.......... 😉
Cheers
John
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On 10 January 2017 at 03:47, Denise Goodfellow <>
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> Increasing age is one reason why birders moderate their twitching (or
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> On 7 Jan 2017, at 9:17 am, Tony Russell <> wrote:
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> > Most of my friends with whom I used to do lots of twitching all over the
> > country have now got older and can no longer put in the effort for weeks
> > away in the donga and tropics. The steam seems to have gone out of it,
> and
> > as for putting in reports all the time, well it's no longer our scene.
> When
> > a good vagrant blows in we may sometimes do a dash and go after it but
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> > always, and by that time it's been reported anyway. So what if we don't
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> > to see it? It's no longer any big deal.
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> > How's that for cheerful.? Tony, once a jolly twitchman.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Birding-Aus On
> Behalf Of
> > Paul Sullivan
> > Sent: 07 January 2017 09:26
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] big listers
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> > Surely, birders can do science and scientists can have fun and
> Twitchathons
> > raise funds for conservation too. But PLEASE enter your records in
> birdata
> > or, if you prefer, eBird with accurate GPS spatial metadata so it can be
> > used for conservation. Even better do a survey using BirdLife's
> standardised
> > methodologies and you will directly help us report on the State of
> > Australia's Birds, influence policy, update threatened species lists and
> > develop recovery plans.
> >
> > Paul Sullivan, Chief Executive
> > BirdLife Australia
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