Button-quail Sought by Police

["martin butterfield" <>]

I look at this totally from the client perspective.  If I rock into an area
where I haven't been before and the guide (paid or unpaid) shows me a bunch
of interesting birds local to that area they have done their job and I am
duly grateful.

If I go to an area with a 1% chance of seeing a specific bird (but that is a
lot higher than the chances of elsewhere I go birding) and a guide shows it
to me, that is fantastic.  If they spend the time and demonstrate knowledge
such that if the bird was there then, and we/I dip well, them is the breaks
and the rotten little beast was somewhere else that day.  If anyone as a
guide claims "certainty" in spotting such a bird (and 1% is just a number
pulled out of thin air) in their patch I'd [robably be rather suspicious of
their claims and avoid them.

The professionals shouldn't beat their breasts too hard.

Martin