Thursday, 13 March 2014
Savannah Sparrow Hoax!
A very sad individual by the name of Matthew Sparkes hoaxed a Savannah
Sparrow in Sussex today, which resulted in birders wasting time, money,
energy etc etc to go and see a bird that never was. I really don't
understand why this happens – in some ways I suppose we should feel
sorry for such people who must be unhappy and very bored with their
life. On the other hand maybe we shouldn't feel sorry for them, when
they obviously revel in making other people unhappy! See discussion on
Birdforum HERE.
People are obviously pretty angry, but there are also some very amusing
posts on here which made me chuckle, especially from Archie Archer on post 74. So, yes Matthew has made a name for himself, but sadly black listed himself in the birding world forever.
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I'll never understand people like this, what do they think they will gain?
ReplyDeleteI was fuming,we were actually in Scotland at the time having just visited Islas and were about to go and visit my family in Inverness when this came up. I couldn't believe we were about to head back down to Sussex and cut our holiday short without seeing the family at all, to say I was stressed out was putting it mildly! Fortunately we hung on until the hoax was announced. This person should be shot. We could have had a car accident on the way, not to mention the cost of petrol and a possible divorce etc etc!
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