Interesting to note that the use of the phrase "Bird Spotting" was taboo back in the day!!!!

Interesting videos, James, which I never knew existed. I've often wondered whether SKY still have their footage which was shot on the first Saturday of the bird's stay. I say that purely because they interviewed me live onsite! Now at the time Sky was not really on the radar in the UK and I thought it might be shown regionally in London or some place. I therefore expected my screen debut to pass into the ether unseen. Then, out of the blue, one of my many aunties in Preston rang my mam to say that another of my aunts, who lived in Spain for the Winter, had seen me on the tele over there! So I was not only nationally famous, but Internationally . Later, I did get the impression that more people in the U.K. had seen the footage because I got a few long, dirty looks at subsequent twitches (e.g. aquatic warbler in Norfolk - I was already staying in the county, so not a twitching job), probably because I had derided the real twitchers who had travelled from afar (the words 'mad' or 'stupid' may have passed my lips). When the queue I was in had moved about 50 meters in three hours, I knew I had truly joined the mad band myself.