Do you remember .... when nobody had a telescope and if they did, they didn't have a tripod and there were only 4 sorts of binoculars [1] ex-army, [2] ex-navy, [3] too cheap, [4] too expensive there was no such thing as "birding" or twitchers and you learned about rarities by postcard or in a newspaper 3 weeks later but mostly not at all, although ... my first two were in The Daily Telegraph and The Belfast Telegraph and there were only " Collins" or "The Observers Book of Birds" written by the rather forbidding "Severe Benson" and no " phone-up" news services and no pagers and no smartphones and no 400+ listers and the YOC was the Junior Bird Recorders Club which I didn't join because ... I thought you had to have a tape recorder and were recording birds with it and Corncrakes weren't rare. but Little Egrets were and cameras had "film" in them which took weeks to come back from the chemist or didn't come back at all and half of the pictures were crap and there were no computers and therefore no blogs especially ones like this .....
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