Introduction

It has for a long time been an idea of mine to start a blog and this is now my third attempt to do just that.  My first idea was start one up entitled "Happy Birder" as to be quite frank there seem to be quite a few people out there who are just so miserable.  It never fails to surprise me that doing something that you love can make people so sour-faced. The "Happy Birder" concept was one where I would have liked to applaud those helpful and nice birders that I meet in my travels, like, Matt, Chris and Paul, who I met in the Isles of Scillies recently.  However, that idea just kind of floundered which then left me with the idea of doing what most people do by setting up a blog which details their sightings on their local patch.  Again, that idea floundered as I don't really have a local patch and if I did, I would never really have time to patrol it on a regular basis.  So, that leaves this idea, where I hope to report details of my birding failures along with other musings.  It has recently occured to me that Birders like to share mainly their Birding highlights and the fact that they have added yet another bird onto their neverending bulging year or life list.  So, this blog is not about the sightings I make but about those misses.  The list which I will compile over the coming days is not a life list but a list of all those birds I have narrowly missed in the past and would now love to see.  This may decrease over the coming months if I do indeed have some successes, but owing from this weekend's near misses I very much doubt it.