Many of my faithful readers will remember the rather stodgy approach to birdwatching as portrayed in a book from the Stone age in which a dodgy old gaffer called Mr. Nesbit guides two teenagers , Mike (m) and Chips (F) along the rocky road to being stodgy old gaffers like him. ..... Here's an illuminating extract .... Aha ! What kind of tree indeed ? Already he's trying to find fault, to catch her out and establish a hierachy in which he is at the top ... anyway, moving on ... Oh yes,,,,her failure to note down the type of tree is now " no laughing matter."..... her interrogator continues to belittle her sighting ...... ... and Mike is on old Nitpicky Nesbit's side again. It goes on in this vein for some time, questioning her memory skills, and then has a go at her for not doing her homework at "the right time", whatever that might be. Now .... this is all very amusing, but it will hardly encourage any young person to bother with birding when old twerps like Nonagenarion Nesbit stick their oar in. Here's my previous scribblings from later on in the book... he's a controlling old bastard ! 726-a-rival-for-the-worst-bird-book-for-young-people.html 729-more-from-the-young-bird-watchers.html Personally, I think they should ditch him and his advice ... he's no good .... Well.... what about a relevant and uplifting spot of music .........
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