10000 Birds visits The Biggest Twitch
10,000 Birds visits The Biggest Twitch
You know how you build up a mental image of someone when you just speak to them on the phone, or even by twitter and Facebook? And sometimes when you meet the real thing, it just doesn’t match up to your imagination. Well, when you’re exchanging tweets with someone called @wiltsnature you do start to build a picture of a friendly guy who’s passionate about birds and interested in the natural world around him generally. But if you’re lucky enough to meet the man behind the mask of @wiltsnature aka Charlie Moores, you find that there’s so much more. A really great guy, with plenty of tales to tell about his life in the airline business, and even more fascinating tales to tell in connection with the real passion of his life, birding.
On the back of his business travel, Charlie has birded all around the world and we swapped stories of great birds and great birding destinations around the globe. Charlie is also part of the team behind 10,000 Birds (
http://10000birds.com), a brilliant website that covers ‘Birding, nature, conservation, and the wide, wide world’ as it states on its home page. If you’ve not visited it before, go there immediately and make it one of your favourites! Charlie is also the force behind the linked site called Talking Naturally, (
http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk) a website dedicated to podcasts featuring interviews with birders and conservationists around the world. Charlie left his ‘podding shed’ as he calls it, in Wiltshire and arrived on our doorstep clutching two of the largest microphones we’ve ever seen. He was then kind enough to interview us for over an hour on the exploits of The Biggest Twitch, though probably the most cutting questions and spontaneous answers came over supper before he switched on those impressive microphones.
Many of you know that once you get us chatting, it’s hard to get us to stop, so we’re sure poor Charlie has a lot of editing work to do in his podding shed before the podcast is short enough for public viewing. But we’ll keep you posted on progress.
In the meantime, we were delighted to meet @wiltsnature face-to-face and find that we clicked instantly. Sadly there was only enough time to pay a brief visit to Conwy RSPB before Charlie had to head back down south, so we hope that we can find an excuse for a return visit soon we can really show him the best birding that North Wales has to offer. With three bird brains working overtime over supper, all sorts of exciting ideas started to flow, so who knows what may come of this? Watch this space!