Excited throngs gather to see rare bird!

[James Shadle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222487/Rare-bird-sends-thousands-twitchers-flocking-gaping-quarry-hole.html#comments

[Harshad Barve]

what a big gathering,
TFS

[Ed Cordes]

Wow! This is certainly a lager turnout! Kind of cool to see them turn out for nature rather than some rock star with no socially redeeming value.

[Bruce Miller]

Reading the comments below the article was disturbing. Wow, do that many people really disapprove of our hobby? For real, how many people gather to see a freaken sporting event, or movie star? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

[Rich Steel]

This is the reason why I don't tend to bother heading off to try and photograph a rare bird when one turns up in the UK.

The same happened last year when a white crowned sparrow turned up in someones garden in Norfolk. I'm glad it didn't land in my garden!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506816/Couple-besieged-1-000-birdwatchers-rare-sparrow-lands-garden.html

Cheers

Rich

[Peregrine Craig Nash]

I was fortunate enough with a friend to find a Cedar Waxwing on Inishbofin on the west coast of Ireland a couple of weeks ago.This was a first for Ireland and also the first juvenile bird to this side of the Atlantic. There are a couple of other records of them in UK over the last twenty years.

The following day about 80 Irish birders came to see it as well as about 15 from England by which time it had sadly gone.
http://www.galwaynews.ie/9241-twitchers039-delight-after-rare-bird-hits-inishbofin