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In my opinion, Peter Alker did a great job restraining himself from not walloping the reporter and not telling Eamonn Holmes where to go ?!?! biggrin

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I had to chuckle when the reporter said ...now its quite a young bird, so is it a baby bunting?
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Interesting to note that the use of the phrase "Bird Spotting" was taboo back in the day!!!!



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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 biggrinbiggrin. 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. wink  



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On 8th March 2019 it's the 25 year anniversary of the Black-faced Bunting at Pennington Flash Country Park

In my opinion, it was not just one of the biggest ornithological events ever in Greater Manchester, it was one of the biggest ornithological events ever in the UK

http://www.leighos.org.uk/2013/10/los-video-archive-black-faced-bunting.html

https://youtu.be/UTzZ5iCwmmM

How many thousand birders visited the site between 8th March and 24th April 1994 ?

How many birders were present on the first Saturday and Sunday ?

Anyone got any memories or photos of this bird or the twitch that they wish to share

Could we see another ornithological event on the same size and scale again in Greater Manchester ?

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