Monday 01 November - 9:00pm - 10:00pm - BBC4
The documentary followed Garry Bagnell, the Craig family and Brett Richards on their twitches and portrays how incredibly obsessive twitching can become - says I after twitching the American Bittern and Green Heron at the weekend!!!
7 year old Mya Rose Craig (LGRE's year listing rival) didn't really look like she was that interested to me - may be wrong though. When asked by Lucy Leveugle, the programmes producer "What makes a good twitcher?" Mya replied "patience and good eyesight" - I would add to that question 'loads of dosh and time'!!!
Great to listen to Lee's thought's on everything!
Other celebs on there included Dick Filby and Will of RBA, Brett Richards, the Craig family, Jed Andrews, also noticed Rebecca Nason at the Eastern Crowned Warbler twitch.
NWT Cley was also shown, along with the Sandhill Crane Twitch and the Eastern Crowned Warbler twitch.
If Garry's wife didn't know about the cost of it all - she most certainly will now, after Garry's list of the cost of each bird was filmed - one of them being £600!
Entertaining and interesting, but it would have been good to have included some female twitchers and I know there's not many, but Sue Bryan was filmed for the documentary - don't know why she wasn't included.
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I just thought it was hilarious and made my other half look positively sane compared to the characters in the film!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the general public regard birders as a bunch of weirdos.
ReplyDeleteim not sure 'celebs' is the right word,though it was good to see some fellow birding friends such as b richards,a lassey,g taylor,h hussay etc,celebs? i dont think so.
ReplyDeleteas for other female twitchers......not ...as..eye,easy,on as mrs craig.
great bloggy thing by the way penny
all the best
darrell