| The area is renowned for its bird life and there were several twitchers already there, all armed with binoculars. |
|
| A chilling northerly wind for the early part of the afternoon had the surveyors feeling more like shiverers than twitchers. |
|
| The Scilly Isles as a whole attract a great deal of unusual birds and crowds of twitchers are not uncommon. |
|
| The rufous turtle dove which saw a flurry of birdwatchers descend on Stromness earlier this month is still attracting twitchers. |
|
| It's amazing what those twitchers can spot in the parched outback in Winter. |
|
| A twitchers ' paradise, the surrounding wetlands and marshes are protected by Birdwatch Ireland. |
|
| The BIRDING COMMUNITY encompasses a broad spectrum of backyard birders, opportunist oglers, weekend watchers, and hardcore twitchers. |
|
| A rare visitor to Salford has got twitchers all over Britain in a flap. |
|
| But when you arrive, what you find is a gem of an island that is a mecca for yachties and twitchers, but which is seriously overlooked by ordinary tourists like me. |
|
| And a steady stream of twitchers, from all across the North West, made the journey after news of the birds' arrival was posted on a birdwatchers' website. |
|
| Botanists, twitchers and wildlife-watchers in Scotland say last week's record-breaking heatwave fooled numerous species into believing winter had already passed. |
|
| Its mud-flats, sand dunes and salt marshes attract an array of unusual birds, which accounts for the number of twitchers with binoculars and long-lens cameras on the island. |
|
| These days the town services twitchers, ramblers, anglers and golfers. |
|
| Tell one birder about an owl in a tree and within a few hours, you can expect to find that tree ringed by a throng of twitchers deploying expensive optics. |
|
| He contacted the British Ornithological Society and up to 70 twitchers from all over the north west descended with cameras and binoculars for a glimpse. |
|
| And with a record 1,762 Whooper's swans coming to dine on grain and potatoes and bask in higher temperatures, the spectacular visitors are causing twitchers ' hearts to race. |
|
| I stand to be corrected by any twitchers among my readership but I thought that cacophony didn't occur in the middle of winter, so is this another effect of global warming? |
|
| Suppression is the act of concealing news of a rare bird from other twitchers. |
|
| Scores of twitchers have travelled hundreds of miles to get a glimpse of the Purple Gallinule or Swamphen that has settled into Saltney. |
|
| What may hurt, however, is the barrage of catty comments from online curtain twitchers checking out her home on the internet. |
|
|
|
| The great spotted cuckoo was pictured in Penally prompting hundreds of twitchers to flock to the area. |
|
| Eager twitchers are heading for Papa Westray, Orkney, after the chestnut bunting was spotted in what is thought to be a UK first. |
|
| So far this year, twitchers have been lucky enough to see a North American lesser scaup duck in Cardiff Bay. |
|
| This is the moment I made twits of the twitchers as we hunted a rare visitor from overseas. |
|
| A SCANDINAVIAN bird rarely seen in Britain was spotted by eagle-eyed twitchers in Liverpool. |
|
| Crouched in the surrounding English countryside, a small army of twitchers excitedly watched and waited as they peered through their telephoto lenses. |
|
| These groups are not about curtain twitchers, they are about caring for their neighbourhoods and being prepared to do something about crime and anti-social behaviour. |
|
| Hundreds of cars lined the shore at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire, yesterday as twitchers flocked to see the rare North American shortbilled dowitcher. |
|
| Guided morning walks are available for novices and more accomplished twitchers, the African finfoot, olive woodpecker and white-headed lawping dotting the dense foliage. |
|
