Yesterday I spent an interesting couple of hours compiling a year-by year rarity tally. It reveals the dramatic (?) Rise and Fall of my Twitching Times. Not that I was exactly a Top Twitcher. Having twins buggers everything up drastically. And you'll be surprised to hear that I've written about the nuts and bolts of twin- ownership, often known as The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune. Its full of adjectives like noisy, messy, punishing, devastating, chaotic and crushing. I'm not even going to start on the adverbs ! But ... on with my wonderful list ..... year by year, month by month I reveal my paltry number of rarities spotted .... plus internationally agreed "ratings" for each year. Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totals Rating 1979 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 SHITE 1984 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 CRAP 1985 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 9 FEEBLE + 1986 0 2 0 2 2 1 5 0 0 1 1 0 14 er .. OK ? 1987 5 1 1 2 6 1 2 5 2 0 2 1 28 GOOD ! 1988 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 11 WEAK 1989 0 3 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 weak 1990 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 CRAP 1991 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 8 feeble 1992 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 CRAP 1993 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 5 0 0 0 14 er..OK ? 1994 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 BOLLOCKS 1995 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 6 CRAP 1996 0 0 0 4 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 16 OK+ 1997 1 0 0 4 4 0 1 0 1 2 1 1 15 OK- 1998 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 CRAP 1999 1 0 0 0 10 0 1 3 0 5 0 0 20 OK++ 2000 3 1 0 5 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 15 OK+ 2001 9 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 20 OK++ 2002 1 2 0 0 4 0 1 10 3 7 2 0 30 CRUMBS 2003 2 0 0 1 4 1 0 7 2 0 1 1 19 OK++- 2004 2 0 1 3 2 0 4 5 1 1 0 0 19 OK++- 2005 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 SHITE 2006 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ULTRASHITE ++ 2007 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 BOLLOCKS 2008 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 9 FEEBLE + 2009 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 CRAP 2010 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 SHITE 2011 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ULTRASHITE+ 2012 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ULTRASHITE++ 2013 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ULTRASHITE+ 2014 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 BOLLOCKS- 2015 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ULTRASHITE++ 2016 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ULTRASHITE+ After that, almost no rarities spotted at all ...... because I didn't find any, and I hardly ever chased any.. Nowadays I see about 1 rarity/year, and about 1 "new" bird about once per 3 years. I might "do" a graph of all that, which will dramatically show you ( and me) that remarkable- roller-coaster- rise (and fall) of my twitching trajectory. Meanwhile, here's a bit of "relevant" music ....
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