Slow Birdwatching ie is 25 years a Record for UK Osprey

Not a single answer to my post re "should we give up our cars" ! Ahh ! HA ! 

 I gave up mine 15 years ago at the start of the Kyoto Process. This Kyoto Process is about to collapse due to the lack of political pressure on leaders particularly in the US but also in Europe to abide by the pledges that they made to achieve emission reductions principally of CO2; the developed world is reneging on its commitments; a part of this requires people to change their lifestyle as some 40% of emissions are householders (I believe) ie private cars and households. These emissions have not been reduced (while industry has somewhat) but poor people have much lower emissions than middle class or rich people.

25 years ago after a disastrous epic twitch to East Anglia in which a now Professor of Biology and another friend came to blows after imbibing some home made "eau de vie" I vowed never agin to go a "twitching"; it is a moral abhorrence in the "anthropocene" are; in my view.

I have my regular sites which are fantatstic that I visit but for 25 years I never saw an osprey ! Friends saw them on passage on the Wye and fishing on the Dol y Mynach of the Elan; forever this magnificent bird seemed to elude me. I will not either visit sites either that give OD references for "rare birds"; birds which are in fact common but have been blown off course from their normal migration routes or out of their usual habitats in the far East or wherever; in fact "freaks of nature".

I finally saw an Osprey sitting in my favourite hide on the Somerset Levels fishing on the lake in front of me; I did not know it was about and therefore I believe the profound sense of pleasure that I experienced was far deeper for the 25 year wait and for having found it myself.

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