Yes readers, here's yet another way to footle away your precious time .... I'm sure you've all got loads of back issues of your local " Trumptonshire Annual Bird Report" ..... I know I have. So why not get them all out and track down how all those birds are getting on through the years ..... our Treecreepers, for example, have totally plummeted round my way, and that's not all. On the other hand, some have prospered. So you can have a smashing time rifling through all that data, drawing graphs, making lists etc. Another good laugh can be had by inspecting the list of contributors in the back pages. Some of them you will know to be downright fantasists and/or halfwits. About 30% is the norm. And quite a few will have dropped dead . Another gripping bar chart to be had there. And once you've done the scientific stuff, why not write a stiff letter to the edditers about all the miprpsints, bra charts, farburcations, growss erurs and mislabeld snaps of, you'll never guess, "raritis." Not to be confused with ratites. They all died out up my way about 30 million years ago. Maybe a few days more. But enough ! Here's various versions of "What Birders Do"
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