Reading Mark Cocker's Birders ­Tales of a Tribe (see Brit. Birds 94: 447), in which he has so ably and affectionately recorded for posterity the entertaining stories and heroic legends about his experiences as a young birder, I was reminded of my own formative years as a `birdwatcher' growing up on the Sussex coast in the 1950s and 1960s. Hotspots like Pagham and Chichester Harbours and Selsey Bill

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